Preface Chapter 1: The Search for Revolutionary Responses to the National Question in Yugoslavia 1918-1935 Chapter 2: Towards Yugoslav Federal Unity under Comintern Influence Chapter 3: People's Liberation Struggle and Building of a New Yugoslavia 1941-1945 Chapter 4: "White Lines on Marble Pillars": Republics, Autonomous Provinces and Borders Chapter 5: Introducing a Socialist Solution to the National Question in Yugoslavia 1945-1948 Chapter 6: Self-Management Socialism and Yugoslav Unity 1949-1958 Chapter 7: Socialist Yugoslavism between Unity and Diversity 1958-1963 Chapter 8: Institutional, Constitutional, and Ideological Changes Introduced in Yugoslavia 1964-1971 Chapter 9: The National Questions Revisited - National Controversies 1967-1971 Chapter 10: The Croatian National Revival and Crisis 1967-1971 Chapter 11: A Reconsideration of the Purpose of the Yugoslav State 1971-1980 Chapter 12: The end of Brotherhood and Unity: Yugoslav National Policy in the 1980s Conclusion
Hilde Katrine Haug works as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Balkan Area Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. She holds a degree in Politics and Modern History from Queen's University, Belfast, and was awarded her PhD from the University of Oslo in 2007. She has worked for a number of years with refugees in Norway and internationally, and has participated in a number of OSCE election observation missions in Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Bosnia Herzegovina.
What Dr. Haug has accomplished is to give us a new look at the Communist contribution to nationality relations in Yugoslavia. This is not the first such attempt in the literature on Yugoslav history, but this is the first major look at the subject with the benefit of hindsight after the collapse of the Yugoslav state. It is now abundantly clear that there were major flaws in Tito's nationality policy, indeed that the "management" of nationality affairs and the Titoist federal policy in its totality greatly contributed to Yugoslavia's bloody denouement. Dr. Haug has written with this understanding in mind and created a very measured answer to a series of complicated period questions. I am certain that this work will provoke a new reading of the long period of Communist engagement in Yugoslavia's internal relations. Ivo Banac, Bradford Durfee Emeritus Professor of History, Yale University Hilde Katrine Haug's new book, Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia, makes an important contribution to the literature on Tito's Yugoslavia. Energetically researched, her book provides a reliable and balanced guide to understanding the evolving policy of the Yugoslav communists vis-a-vis the national question and their understanding of the challenge posed by multi-ethnicity. Covering the period from 1935 until the disintegration of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990, her book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in what made Yugoslavia tick. Sabrina Ramet, Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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