POL 2103 Lecture 9: POL2103 L9
9 Oct 2017
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Three official languages of yugoslavia were serbo-croatian, slovenian, and macedonian. Tensions between the two communities had been simmering throughout the 20th century and had occasionally erupted into major violence, particularly during the wwi and wwii. Tito repressed nationalist manifestations throughout yugoslavia, seeking to ensure that no yugoslav republic or nationality gained dominance over the others. In particular, the power of serbia the largest and most populous republic was diluted by the establishment of autonomous governments in the province of voivodina in the north of serbia and kosovo in the south. Kosovo"s predominately ethnic albanian settlement (since at least the 1921 census) In 1974 yugoslav constitution granted an expanded set of political rights. Along with vojvodina, it was declared a province and gained many of the powers of a fully-fledged republic: a seat on the federal presidency and its own assembly, police force and national bank. Power exercised by the communist party, but devolved mainly to ethnic albanian communists.
