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Yugoslavia POLITICAL EVOLUTION AFTER 1945
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Figure 12. The Delegate System of Elections, 1990
Source: Based on information from Jovan Djordjevic (ed.),
Drustveno-politicki sistem SFRJ, Belgrade, 1975, 462.
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Federal Assembly (Skupstina) building, Belgrade
Courtesy Charles Sudetic
From 1945 to 1980, Josip Broz Tito was the only leader of the
Republic of Yugoslavia. His influence on Yugoslav politics began
several years before the war and remained formidable a decade
after his death. Tito presided over a series of political
experiments that separated Yugoslavia from the Stalinist model of
centralized decision making. Tito's political culture replaced
that model with autonomous grass-roots political institutions;
nonetheless, it retained the external trappings and ideology of a
monolithic Marxist state. Before the end of Tito's regime,
however, the inherent contradiction of that combination began to
erode national institutions, including the LCY.
Data as of December 1990
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