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This study examines the Yugoslav government s policy on the rapidly escalating Yugoslav worker emigration from 1963-1973 through the coverage of that emigration in the major Yugoslav news media during these same years. Because the Yugoslav press contained a degree of contrasting opinion that was high relative to other Communist states during the same period, while at the same time allowing no questioning of settled policy, its coverage of this subject provides a useful window into the shifting attitudes toward worker emigration of the government and especially of President Tito.Using as sources the major Yugoslav newspapers and other periodicals, as well as dispatches from Tanjug, the Yugoslav government s official news agency, and translations of radio broadcasts, the picture comes clearly into focus of a government struggling to manage the effects of this exodus, but unable to affect the outflow in a substantive way because it was unavoidable given the external labor markets and the policy of self-management itself. ... Read more

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Not bad
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These essays, which focus on the critical issues that now confront the country in its continuing search for reform, stability, and unity, were written prior to recognition of the independence of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina by countries of the European Community, the United States, and others. The newly independent countries of the former Yugoslav federation will continue to occupy the same geographic and economic space. Their future economic and sociopolitical relations will provide many other opportunities for association. These essays provide valuable insight into the policies that may evolve from these relations and are of more than just historical interest. This volume will be valuable to economists, political scientists, and others in the social sciences interested in the dramatic events unfolding in Eastern Europe. It will also provide lessons for those in other countries seeking similar reforms. ... Read more

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Extract from ýBooks on Bosniaý, London 1999
Perhaps the best English-language textbook history of Titoist Yugoslavia. In the first edition published in 1984, Ramet highlighted the importance of inter-republican contradictions within the Yugoslav Federation and thetrend towards confederalization. A somewhat rigid theoretical frameworkgives the added chapters on the road to war a tacked-on feel ... Read more

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Liberal Forces in Twentieth Century Yugoslavia: Memoirs of Ladislav Bevc spans 80 years of his professional and political life: from the early years of his childhood in the large family of a civil servant, to his studies in Vienna and the interruption of his professional career by military service at the Eastern and Western front under the detested Austrian flag, to a flourishing career in the liberated homeland of Yugoslavia. Born in Škocijan, Slovenia, he graduated as a civil engineer from the Technical University in Vienna. In World War I, he served on the front in Russia and France. Following the war, Ladislav Bevc focused his life on politics, civic organizations, and the engineering profession. In Ljubljana, he served as a city councilman and was active in civic and academic affairs. He helped establish a new University and resisted Communist subversion in the Sokol Patriotic Gymnast Association. Following the German invasion in World War II,he joined the resistance movement of General Dragoljub Mihajlovich, which led to encounters with the Gestapo and eventual political emigration. In 1949, he immigrated to California, where he remained active in the efforts to liberate Yugoslavia from the Communists and rescued his family, who had been held hostage. In the free world, he organized the Slovenian liberal émigrés in the Slovenian Democratic Party and was instrumental in rebuilding the Yugoslav Sokol in the Free World. He practiced civil engineering in the United States, where he was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He died on November 29, 1988. ... Read more

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Simply excellent!
I gulped this book down in just two evenings. Now I am reading it again, much more carefully, as the wealth of material is simply amazing for a book of this size. And then the footnotes: these are a story in themselves, I would say. It is really very good that finally there is a well researched publication which not only dispels some myths but also factually shows what really happened. I love this period in history and for anybody interested in1920's and 1930's in Europe (the consequences of things happening in Yugoslavia were felt elsewhere too...) this book is simply indispensable. I can only hope that he goes on and publishes more really soon!

Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia
A scholarly, balanced and thoroughly researched study, based on archival previously non published documents in the United States, Great Britain, Croatia and Serbia.The author dealth with a complicated, difficult, and complex subject necessary for understanding Yugoslavia in its first two decades prior to the World War Two, the Communist rule and Yugoslavia's disintegration.A minutely documented study with dispassioned conclusions. ... Read more