PART III: YUGOSLAVIA FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1918–1991) - Everyday Life in both Yugoslavias: Catching up with Europe
PART III: YUGOSLAVIA FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1918–1991) - Everyday Life in both Yugoslavias: Catching up with Europe

Author(s): Igor Duda
Subject(s): Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Summary/Abstract: As in most of Europe during the past century, the everyday life of the majority of the population in both Yugoslavias was taking big strides toward change. Shorter and traumatic periods of high mortality rates and destruction (during the wars) alternated with long peaceful periods, and the initial and final results of both Yugoslav half-times pointed to an increase in the quality of life. This was especially felt among those strata of the population – workers and most peasants – whose initial position was low and unenviable and their basic material safety uncertain over both the short and long term. After two wars, social, economic and cultural circumstances were guided by the idea of shaping a better environment and significant leaps towards moderization, which was especially pronounced during the second post-war period, when the society was shaped according to the principles of socialist modernization, based on rapid industrialization, electrification and urbanization. New everyday practices and customs were permeated with new conceptions, shaping different identities and gradually changing long-established mentalities.

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