Politics in Army Barracks – Political Views of YPA Members at the Beginning of the Seventies Cover Image

Политика у касарни – политички ставови припадника ЈНА почетком седамдесетих година
Politics in Army Barracks – Political Views of YPA Members at the Beginning of the Seventies

Author(s): Petar Dragišić
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Military policy, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: politics; military and politics; Yugoslav People’s Army; political situation in Yugoslavia; inter-ethnic intolerance;

Summary/Abstract: The documents of the Organization of the Communist Party in the Yugoslav People’s Army from the mid-seventies show that at that time the top military leaders were carefully analyzing the impact of the political turbulences in Yugoslavia on the situation in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The information about “political crimes” in the YPA units leads to the conclusion that the political tensions present at the time in Yugoslavia had some effects on the ideological stability of the Army. The political incidents with the involvement of the members of the Yugoslav People’s Army were mostly motivated by interethnic intolerance which troubled the Yugoslav society at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies. The documents of the Organization of the Communist Party in YPA reveal that the military leaders saw the solution of the problem in intensifying political and ideological education of the members of the Yugoslav People’s Army.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 162-171
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian