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Yugoslavia REGIONAL POLITICAL ISSUES
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Serbian demonstrator burning photograph of Tito, Belgrade,
1990
Courtesy Charles Sudetic
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Nationalist Serbs in anti-Tito demonstration, Belgrade,
1990
Courtesy Charles Sudetic
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Voting in the first multiparty election in Croatia, 1990
Courtesy Charles Sudetic
Throughout the postwar era, each of Yugoslavia's six
republics and two provinces maintained its own political posture
and agenda, many aspects of which had originated centuries
before. Geography, natural resources, religion, nationality,
economic policy, and traditional relations with other countries
influenced the positions of republics and provinces. In 1987
Pedro Ramet, a scholar of Yugoslav politics, summarized
interrepublican political differences thus: ". . . liberal
recentralizers are dominant in the Serbian Party, conservative
recentralizers in the Bosnian and Montenegrin Parties, liberal
decentralizers in the Slovenian and Vojvodinan Parties, and
conservative decentralizers in the Croatian, Macedonian, and
Kosovan Parties." By 1990, a complex combination of
differentiating factors again threatened to divide the federal
structure of the Yugoslav state.
Data as of December 1990
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