Developments in Yugoslav Agriculture: Breaking the Ideological Barrier in a Period of General Economic and Political Crisis
Developments in Yugoslav Agriculture: Breaking the Ideological Barrier in a Period of General Economic and Political Crisis

Summary/Abstract: With 600 percent or greater inflation, sporadic bread riots, the seemingly imminent collapse of the Titoist dream of "Brotherhood and Unity" and of an integrated socialist society based on worker self-management, one would think that Yugoslavia had a lot more to worry about than the "kulak danger" and the restoration of capitalism in the countryside. Yet this "spectre of capitalism" is evidently still haunting the village in the minds of some Yugoslav politicians. lo an era of great systemic and ideological upheaval throughout the socialist world, once radically reformist Yugoslavia has the dubious distinction today of being one of the socialist countries most dogmatically resistant to change. Nowhere is this resistance more evident than in agricultural policy, and particularly in the attitude toward the private sector, where the only real scope for relatively rapid and substantial growth in output exists. [...]

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