“IT MUST BE SOME GREAT HATRED”: YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP AND THE DEMONSTRATIONS IN KOSOVO IN 1981
“IT MUST BE SOME GREAT HATRED”: YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP AND THE DEMONSTRATIONS IN KOSOVO IN 1981
Author(s): Boris Mosković
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Nationalism Studies, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Yugoslavia; Kosovo; protests; political elite; collective leadership; inter-ethnic relations
Summary/Abstract: Demonstrations in Kosovo in March and April 1981 were an unpleasant surprise for Yugoslav politicians, an unprecedented challenge. The paper analyzes the reaction of the representatives of the then federal leadership (i.e., mainly of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and the Presidency of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (CC of UCY) to these events. Their arguments and behavior were studied in the context of the functioning of the collective leadership that was the basic principle of the post-Titoist system of government.
Book: Lost in the kaleidoscope : national minorities in Yugoslavia
- Page Range: 249-280
- Page Count: 32
- Publication Year: 2024
- Language: English
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