ЕКОНОМСКИ АСПЕКТИ СУКОБА ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ СА СССР-ОМ ИЗ 1948. ГОДИНЕ У СВЕТЛУ ПРИВРЕДНЕ САРАДЊЕ СА ЗАПАДОМ (1945–1948)
ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE YUGOSLAV-SOVIET SPLIT FROM 1948 IN THE LIGHT OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH THE WEST (1945–1948)

Summary/Abstract: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia confronted numerous problems in the field of economy after the establishment of government in the country. Economic reconstruction of the country was the most difficult task that could not be carried out without establishing trade cooperation with the rest of the world. Therefore, immediately after the liberation, an active policy was carried out in that direction. Making tighter economic ties with the USSR and other states of the Soviet sphere of interest, there was a reversal compared to the situation before the Second World War. Despite this, Yugoslavia had to take care of trade cooperation with the West. Inherited economic ties, the technological structure of companies mostly of Western origin, technical assistance from UNRRA and reparations that started to arrive from Germany, directed Yugoslavia towards a milder relationship with the capitalist part of the world. With the start of the First Five-Year Plan of Industrialisation, the need to expand foreign trade became paramount. The urgency of finding funds for the purchase of new and overhaul of existing industrial machinery necessary for industrialisation, forced the Yugoslav state and party leadership to begin negotiations with the United States of America regarding the unblocking of Yugoslav monetary reserves that were hidden in America before the Second World War. Furthermore, trade negotiations and negotiations regarding compensation for nationalised property were conducted in parallel with Great Britain and other industrialised western countries. Yugoslavia’s independent international appearances at the end of 1947 and the beginning of 1948 became a thorn in Stalin’s side. The strong pressure of the internal needs of the country’s economic development combined with authentic revolutionary political experience influenced the increasingly sovereign foreign policy moves of the Yugoslav leadership. The beginning of the conflict at the end of March, initiated by accusations against Tito and his associates, was planned by Moscow leadership well before the internationalisation of the conflict. In this paper, there is an analysis of the economic factors and processes that had a significant impact on the termination of mutual relations between the “First and Second State of Socialism”.

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