Along with external pressure, this caused the adoption of multi-party systems in all the republics. Czech position was that an even looser federation is unviable, and it's better to split in that case. [12] The most developed republics, Croatia and Slovenia, rejected attempts to limit their autonomy as provided in the 1974 Constitution. In Serbia the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina were given autonomous status in order to acknowledge the specific interests of Albanians and Magyars, respectively. Prior to the beginning of World War II (WWII), Czechoslovakia was annexed by Germany. Between June 1991 and April 1992, four constituent republics declared independence (only Serbia and Montenegro remained federated). In June 1989, the 600th anniversary of Serbia's historic defeat at the field of Kosovo, Slobodan Miloevi gave the Gazimestan speech to 200,000 Serbs, with a Serb nationalist theme which deliberately evoked medieval Serbian history. Communist rule ended in Czechoslovakia. Despite this federal form, the new state was at first highly centralized both politically and economically, with power held firmly by Titos Communist Party of Yugoslavia and a constitution closely modeled on that of the Soviet Union. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In the meeting, a vote was taken on a proposal to enact martial law to allow for military action to end the crisis in Croatia by providing protection for the Serbs. Lord Carrington's opinions were rendered moot following newly reunited Germany's Christmas Eve 1991 recognition of Slovenia and Croatia. The BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia revealed that at the time, Croatian TV dismissed the "Log Revolution" as the work of drunken Serbs, trying to diminish the serious dispute. 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Corrections? In addition, the centralized government had its own economic influence, as seen in heavy military expenditure, the creation of an inflated civil service, and direct intervention in productive industries and in the marketing of agricultural goods. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was dissolved and rebranded. [19], As President, Tito's policy was to push for rapid economic growth, and growth was indeed high in the 1970s. Furthermore, the failure of communism all over Central and Eastern Europe once again brought to the surface Yugoslavia's inner contradictions, economic inefficiencies (such as chronic lack of productivity, fuelled by the country's leaderships' decision to enforce a policy of full employment), and ethno-religious tensions. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. The phrasing of the question did not explicitly inquire as to whether one was in favor of secession or not. Negotiations to restore the Yugoslav federation with diplomat Lord Carrington and members of the European Community were all but ended. However, the attempt to replay the anti-bureaucratic revolution in Ljubljana in December 1989 failed: the Serb protesters who were to go by train to Slovenia were stopped when the police of SR Croatia blocked all transit through its territory in coordination with the Slovene police forces. Brezhnev's notion of limited sovereignty and the Soviet . Under this law, individuals participated in Yugoslav enterprise management through the work organizations into which they were divided. Beth J. Asch, Courtland Reichmann, Rand Corporation. Breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia [74], Some observers opined that the break up of the Yugoslav state violated the principles of post-Cold War system, enshrined in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE/OSCE) and the Treaty of Paris of 1990. Corrections? [57], In Vukovar, ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs exploded into violence when the Yugoslav army entered the town. In 1921, together with the Kingdom of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia established the Little Entente with the purpose of common defense against Hungarian revanchism and the prospect of a Habsburg restoration. The policy dictated that one-third of the Serbian minority were to be killed, one-third expelled, and one-third converted to Catholicism and assimilated as Croats. This second Yugoslavia covered much the same territory as its predecessor, with the addition of land acquired from Italy in Istria and Dalmatia. Michele Norris has a primer on the new states created in the Balkans since 1989. [3] The Serbs tended to view the territories as a just reward for their support of the allies in World WarI and the new state as an extension of the Kingdom of Serbia.[4]. This angered Serbia's leadership which proceeded to use police force, and later the federal army (the Yugoslav People's Army JNA) by order of the Serbian-controlled Presidency.