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The Croatian Spring, 1971: Socialism in one Republic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Oskar Gruenwald
Oskar Gruenwald*
Affiliation:
Santa Monica, Cal. Author of The Yugoslav Search for Man
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The Yugoslav critique of Stalinism and the concomitant elaboration of the Titoist model of self-managing socialism continue to bewilder observers East and West, as well as the Yugoslavs themselves. Thus, until recently, Chinese communist criticism that Yugoslavia had sold out to the West and become its Trojan Horse in the communist world was neatly balanced by those Western critiques which see in Titoism a communist Trojan Horse to penetrate Western defenses. Some wonder whether Yugoslavia is really a self-managing democracy or a single-party dictatorship. Others ask themselves whether Yugoslavia's decentralized economy is capitalist or socialist. Many fear for Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and national independence, particularly since Tito's death on May 4, 1980.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Fall 1982 , pp. 221 - 231
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Copyright © Association for the Study of Nationalities, 1982 

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