Following Susan Woodward's (1995) path-breaking research in Socialist Unemployment, Unkovski-Korica tries to explain the emergence of Yugoslav self-management, and the wider market reforms, in the early post-WWII period in relation not only to the ideological positions of the Yugoslav leadership and the political pressures of bloc politics, but also in relation to the country's international economic position, most importantly its current account deficit. In addition, Unkovski-Korica explores statesociety relations in the first decade and a half after WWII in Yugoslavia-how the party-state interacted with trade unions, workers, workers' councils after they were formed, various organizations in the Popular Front, the peasantry, and others, and how this conditioned the Party's domestic reforms. The book is divided into 4 chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. The first chapter deals with the 1944-1948 period, from the liberation of Belgrade to the Tito-Stalin split. It focuses on the Communist Party's attempts to bring about quick economic reconstruction and development, and its oscillation between using mass mobilization and administrative controls versus trying to build a more stable and market-oriented institutional
This article investigates the origins of the autonomous status of Vojvodina in postwar Serbia and Yugoslavia. It charts the formation of national and regional consciousness among Vojvodina's Serbs, Germans and Hungarians, from Habsburg times to the Second World War. It then argues that Nazi Germany's racial war radicalised national tensions in Vojvodina. Nazi defeat resulted in the brutal expulsion of Vojvodina's Germans, making Serbs for the first time a majority. The region's claim to autonomous status after the war therefore clashed with the national-territorial principle applied to federalism by the victorious Communist Party of Yugoslavia, causing frequent friction and instability. Article 1 The borderlands of Eastern Europe and the Balkans witnessed violent processes of nation-state formation in the nineteenth and particularly the twentieth centuries. War and revolution in these areas of mixed population were the road from imperial domination to independent statehood. In The Lands Between (Prusin, 2011), Alexander V. Prusin shows the borderlands between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia moving towards inter-ethnic
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