How Did Yugoslavia Start

Yugoslavia was the only Eastern European country which manages to not fall under the Soviet occupation. The main reasons of this fact are that Yugoslavia was not liberated by the Red Army, but from the Yugoslav partisans. This army was led by communists. In 1945 the leader of the Communist Resistance, Josip Broz Tito, took the control of the country. Tito was not a soviet trained Stalinist; instead he was an independent national leader who did not accept to do as the Moscow wish. Tito was one of the most significant causes why Yugoslavia achieved to maintain her independence from the Soviet Union. Firstly, the relations between Moscow and Belgrade seemed good. Yugoslavia also joined the first Cominform in 1947, which it was held in Belgrade.

In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared it’s independence from Yugoslavia. Over the next several years, Bosnian Serb

The death of the Marshal Josip Broz Tito in 1980, led to a major political transition of Yugoslavia. By taking the Presidency of Serbia in 1987, Milosevic began to pursue authority over Yugoslavian Federation, thus encouraging a different style of rule, the ultra-nationalistic tendency, and advocating for “incendiary Nationalism” towards other ethnic groups and nations of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Simon and Smale). The shift from the Tito’s social-communist ideology to the Serbian-centered nationalism of Milosevic created an unequal representation on the Federal level of the six constituent Socialist Republics and two Socialist Autonomous, thus, as a result of the rise of ethnic nationalism, the violation of human and minority

The animosity among Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs, Moslem Bosnians, Orthodox Macedonians and Muslim Albanians, led to Yugoslavia’s wars of the 1990s. Nonetheless, there were some hopeful elements and countervailing examples of humanistic values and peaceful coexistence prevailing among people of these ethnicities: the efforts of Yugoslav politicians who were attempting to address disputes through negotiation rather than violence, the steps taken by the United Nations to stem the violence, the actions of particular individuals to stem the violence, the friendships between people of different ethnicities that existed before the wars and persisted as they were going on, the friendships between people of different ethnicities that were built

Disintegration of the Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and change of regime spelled disaster for the working class as well as its civil society, educational system, media, sciences, arts, and humanities. Over two decades have passed since the end of armed conflict, but the spectre of war is still present. Dismissed as backward, it is categorised as an under-developed country in need of intervention. These latitudes have fallen prey to being harnessed by various players to different ends. Framed in largely prescriptive and institutional ways - to function as instruments for a prevailing order of social values – developemet and humanitarian institutions and agencies are impotent to accommodate for the wide understanding of transitional

While Tito’s oppression may have made people more intrigued by its rise after his death, this fails to explain why things ended the way they did. When Stalin died things changed in the USSR, but it didn’t fall. And notably, Yugoslavia remained (de facto) unified until 1992, twelve years after Tito’s death. I’m convinced that things happened the way they did because nationalism appealed to the people; Milošević sought to keep Yugoslavia unified, but with Serbian supremacy, a promise which would have sounded good if you were a Serbian worried about the future of your people and your nation, and used heinous means to try to achieve his goal. Perhaps if some sort of plan had been made prior to Tito’s death that addressed the problems that could arise, Yugoslavia may have lasted longer. Some people certainly hold onto memories of a time when Yugoslavia was at peace, what Dubravka Ugrešić called “Yugonostalgia” in her novel The Ministry of Pain, indicating that there may have been the potential for Yugoslavia to stay how it was had nationalism not been so appealing. In short, Yugoslavia may have been an old man no longer in his prime, but nationalism murdered it, and Tito’s death laid the gun on the

The balkans is a very important strategic location, because it provides a land bridge between Europe and Asia. Many nations wanted the Balkans because of it's position, so it played a large part in the history of Europe. The Balkan Peninsula was part of the Roman Empire, but later split in half when the Empire fell. In the 1400s the Ottoman Empire became the new owner of the Balkan Peninsula. After World War I, the Ottoman Empire ended. Later, the Balkans became a new nation named Yugoslavia, a nation with many divisions. King Alexander, the ruler of Yugoslavia, tried to unite the different cultures by adopting a new language, Serbo-Croatian. By 2003, Yugoslavia had ended, but the countries of Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia,

Nationalism had been voiced many time’s by Milosevic which he uses to voice out against the Bosnian state. With the help from Karadzic another person who was indicted for war crimes, Milosevic was able to gain a stronger foothold in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Rape camps were used and created to eliminate the Bosniak bloodline. “Thousands of Muslim and Croatian girls and women were raped and made forcibly pregnant in settings including Serbian-run concentration camps, of which about twenty are solely rape/death camps

A key goal that was valued highly in my research was to find sources that give my argument depth, perspective and an overview of the events of Yugoslavia from every angle. This source, does just that. Flere’s journal article focuses on the conflict

Raised in all wars in the world is difficult to understand the roots of conflicts, simplifying, the causes can be psychological, traditional or modern base. History is always present and is used as a motivating force, along with others, in almost every war there are economic reasons as secondary causes. In the Balkan War, it has historically been characterized by its high vulnerability to conflicts of low, medium and high intensity, especially because of the events that took place during this century, which have been decisive and marked conclusively the present conflict .

The country of Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 after combining land areas from the now both defunct Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires and then recreated as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World War II. The Soviet Union took control of Yugoslavia after the war and wrote a new constitution for the country that established six constituent republics in the federation: Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. The Republic of Serbia also had two self-governing provinces: Vojvodina and Kosovo. Yugoslavia was a part of the Soviet Union until the Union dissolved in 1991 and as a result Yugoslavia soon followed, but this is about

Southeastern Europe has been a conflict-ridden corner of the world since as early as 400 A.D. From the split of the Roman empire to the rule by the Ottoman empire to the World Wars and most recently, the breakdown of Yugoslavia, this region has not had a boring moment in history. Such a long history of conflict has impacted the people of this region in ways that still matter today, such as ethnic identity and religion.

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The Yugoslavian Conflict Yugoslavia is a country burdened by feuding sides in a war that cannot soon be resolved. The United Nations are attempting to help the situation, but until the people of Yugoslavia can come to an agreement continued warfare and heartache is inevitable. The problems in Yugoslavia began because the country is separated into two distinct parts. The north and west parts of the country were once under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the south and the east were controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

Table 1. represents Serbian GDP per capita. The graph shows a small decline in 1991, marking the beginning of the war, probably due to the lack of demand from the former Yugoslav market. Then from 1992 to 1995 it rises as a result of war industry. Up to 2002(Milosevic’s rule) there has been a serious decline followed by a rebound to 2006. Although influenced by the world economic crisis, Serbian economics has recorded a steady rise from 2009.