Forms of Student Resistance to the Communist Regime in Serbia 1945-1990 Cover Image

Oblici studentskog otpora komunističkom režimu u Srbiji 1945-1990.
Forms of Student Resistance to the Communist Regime in Serbia 1945-1990

Author(s): Srđan Cvetković, Dragomir Bondžić
Subject(s): Social history, Politics and society, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: Communism; students; Serbia; public protests; demonstrations; strikes; rebellions

Summary/Abstract: This text is intersection and analysis of all forms of the student resistance to regime in Serbia since 1944 until 1990. The resistance to revolutionary government was destroyed by repression in first few years after Second World War and hushed during ’50s. After second half of ’60s it culminated, particularly in years after Tito’s death. The highest intensity of active societal resistance in self-mana-gement socialism was reached in period 1966–1972 and after that 1982–1990. In the end of 60’s new postwar generations were looking for their own political direction. Radical student movements and demonstrations, turbulences in the world were spilling over and raising political temperature in the country. This tendency coincided with campaign of liberalization after 1966 (fall of Aleksandar Ranković) and relative declining authority of the state, party and security services and the death of Josip Broz Tito as the main pillar of the regime. Global crises of communism in the ’80s and increasing economic crisis in SFRY was strengthening the intensity of resistance.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 125-147
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian