PART III: YUGOSLAVIA FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1918–1991) - Yugoslav Society 1918–1991: From the Stagnation to the Revolution
PART III: YUGOSLAVIA FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1918–1991) - Yugoslav Society 1918–1991: From the Stagnation to the Revolution

Author(s): Srđan Milošević
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Summary/Abstract: At the time it came into existence, the first Yugoslav state was composed of regions differing very much among themselves economically (different stages of capitalist development), socially (primarily the relationship between urban and rural structures), culturally (primarily literacy and education), and religiously (multiconfessionality), not to mention their political institutions and political culture, as well as their legal frameworks (the level of bureaucratization and the rule of law). Taking into account all quantitative and qualitative criteria, it is diffcult to imagine a more diverse territory. Some historical regions were sharply divided within themselves by multiple lines separating groups and smaller regions according to various criteria. Class, ethnic and religious differences were dominant for a long time but, with the development of capitalism on Europe’s periphery, the class dimension was increasingly important, adding a new quality to the existing multiple relationships. The Yugoslav state began its life in a territory, which, according to the 1917 Corfu Declaration, was divided into eleven provincial divisions and thirteen legislations. With its overwhelmingly rural polulation and remnants of landed aristocracy, Yugoslavia was a “museum of agrarian structures”, including the remnants of the agrarian relations inherited from the period of antiquity (the colonate in Dalmatia). The bourgeois and working classes were unequally, but essentially poorly, developed.

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