By Nebojsa Vladisavljevic
The antibureaucratic revolution used to be the main an important episode of Yugoslav conflicts after Tito. Drawing on fundamental resources and state of the art examine, this booklet explains how renowned unrest contributed to the autumn of communism and the increase of a brand new kind of authoritarianism, competing nationalisms and the break-up of Yugoslavia.
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The regime subsequently incorporated some of the demands into its policies, especially those related to the living standards of students and the working class, and simultaneously engaged in the suppression of dissent. The student press, student leaders and their prominent supporters among professors, and their new organizational forms, all became targets of the regime’s repression in the following months and years (Popov 1983). In the autumn of 1968, hundreds of Albanians demonstrated across Kosovo and northwest Macedonia with a demand for a republic of Kosovo, even union with Albania (see D ¯ akovi´c 1984: 287–92).
Regional and local officials and the managerial-technocratic elite, empowered by earlier reforms, demanded more influence over 32 Serbia’s Antibureaucratic Revolution government policy, while there was also a growing desire in society for personal freedom and greater social and economic pluralism. Simultaneously, the rapid economic growth of the 1950s had an uneven impact on more and less developed regions, widening the gap between a relatively well off Slovenia, Croatia and parts of Serbia, and the remaining poorer part of Yugoslavia.
One part of the new policy involved the introduction of workers’ self-management, used to denote the workers’ participation in the management of enterprises and the autonomy of enterprises in relation to the state. Another included setting up local self-government institutions. Throughout the 1950s, Yugoslavia’s institution-builders put an emphasis on these aspects of decentralization rather than federalism. The constitutional reform of 1953 introduced an integrated pyramidal system of functional and communal representation from enterprises and municipalities up to the federation, to complement the hierarchical structure of the party and associated mass organizations.