This study has presented an overview of the significant impact the Balkan Federation attempts had upon the 1948 Soviet-Yugoslav split. Furthermore, this thesis argues that Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Broz-Tito's intentions to create a federation of Balkan countries and East European bloc states challenged Joseph Stalin's monolithic dominance. United under Tito, this federation could have provided resistance to Stalin's plans to subjugate Communist Europe under his command. Furthermore, for Tito, the Balkan Federation represented the opportunity to maintain control over Yugoslavian affairs while enhancing his influence in the region. Such a demonstration of independence by Tito could cause other Soviet dominated areas to question Stalin's authority. It is this scenario of a Balkan Federation inside Stalin's Communist realm that became the immediate factor in the Moscow-Belgrade break. / Department of History

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The disparities in the level of development between the richer and poorer regions of Yugoslavia are among the worst in Europe. The level of output per head of the population in 1964 in the poorest of the eight regions was less than one-fifth of its level in the richest, while in the group of the four least developed regions, comprising 40 percent of the country's land area and one-third of its population, it was only one-half of its level in the more developed group. The period 1953-and4 spans twelve years during which the promotion of the development of the backward regions has been a constitutional obligation of the Yugoslav government, and its active regional policy implemented through the uniquely Yugoslav system of decentralised planning. Following the repudiation, in the years 1950-52, of centralised directive planning on the Soviet model, the Yugoslav authorities instituted a system of economic management based on the decentralisation to the enterprise of responsibility for the organisation of current production, combined with the retention by the state organs of control over the "basic proportions of development", specifically, the level and sectoral distribution of investment and foreign trade. The control of investment was made effective through the strong centralisation in the accumulation of investment funds, from taxes on the enterprise, and their allocation in accordance with plan priorities. The authorities were thus able directly to channel a substantial volume of investment funds to the underdeveloped regions. Extensive government intervention in price formation, in addition to tax concessions and the payment of subsidies to enterprises in financial difficulties severely limited the application of profit and loss criteria to the operations of the enterprise. The system of decentralised planning thus provided a very favourable institutional framework for promoting investment and the expansion of output in the underdeveloped regions. Development policy for the backward regions, as for the country as a whole, passed through two main phases during these years. Industrialisation was consistently regarded as the centrepiece of development strategy, with the improvement of agriculture and the expansion of tertiary activities playing, for the most part, only a subsidiary role. Between 1953 and 1956 efforts were concentrated on the build-up of the "basic industries", notably the power industries and heavy metallurgy, a continuation of the policy begun under the First Five-Year Plan in the Stalinist years. From 1957, however, a new strategy was adopted, of "development on a broader front", giving much greater prominence to the expansion of manufacturing and consumer goods' industries. This reorientation gave rise to considerable dispersion in the development efforts in the backward regions, both among industrial sectors and into newly designated centres, in contrast to the narrow range of industries developed in the earlier phase and their concentration in the vicinity of the necessary raw materials. Within this broad pattern, however, the individual underdeveloped regions varied their own development strategies in accordance with their natural resources and other characteristics. In Bosnia- Hercegovenia, which contained a substantial part of Yugoslavia's reserves of coal, iron-ore and water-power, development proceeded rapidly in the earlier years with the expansion of the national priority sectors of coal, steel and electricity, but latterly the transition to a more diversified pattern of industrial development was effected only slowly. The concentration of these resource-based industries into the central parts of the region has left Bosnia-Hercegovenia itself, in spite of substantial local population migration, faced with the internal problem of disparities between its more and less developed areas. Montenegro, the smallest and most remote of the regions, separated from the rest of Yugoslavia by mountain barriers, had initially to devote major efforts and a large volume of investment to the provision of transport facilities before the expansion of production could be begun, and even in 1964 the facilities remained seriously deficient. Because of the region's small size (less than half a million inhabitants) its development strategy comprised only a few individual projects, although the level of investment there was much the highest in Yugoslavia. Macedonia, the most agricultural of the underdeveloped regions, adopted a policy of integrated agricultural and industrial development, the improvement of agriculture being complemented by the establishment of textile, leather and food-processing industries to process agricultural products for the national market. This pattern of development encouraged a high degree of urbanisation in the region, with the concentration of its industries into a number of relatively large centres, each serving its particular agricultural hinterland. For political reasons development efforts for Kosmet, much the poorest of the Yugoslav regions did not begin, on any scale, until after 1957, with the result that development there was scarcely begun. A two-pronged approach, comprising both heavy and light industry, was however being either adopted or planned. Coal, electricity and, eventually, chemical industries were being based on the region's extensive lignite deposits, while non-ferrous metallurgy and related chemicals were being expanded, to exploit local deposits of lead and zinc; complementary to these, the labour-intensive industries of textiles, footwear and food products were being promoted in order to create new industrial employment and thus begin to relieve the acute pressure of agricultural overpopulation. But, in spite of very high levels of investment in the underdeveloped regions, the disparities between the regional groups in the level of output per head tended to increase over the twelve years, as total output in the underdeveloped regions grew rather less rapidly, and population more rapidly, than in the more developed group. This occurred in spite of considerable emigration, most notably from Macedonia. Only in Montenegro, much the smallest of the regions, was a movement towards convergence with the more developed group achieved. The policy of industrialisation was itself successful, in that each of the underdeveloped regions recorded a rate of industrial expansion higher, sometimes substantially higher, than in the more developed group; but their tendency towards lower growth rates in the other economic sectors, combined with the handicap of an output structure in which industry occupied a lesser place more than offset (except in Montenegro) the successful growth of industrial production. The focussing of development efforts on industrial expansion, while in itself successful, was thus concentrated on too narrow a front to achieve a convergent movement in the growth of total output. The cost of the policy of development in the backward regions is difficult to appraise, with the artificial prices for certain items of capital equipment and the payment of subsidies in order to maintain production in unprofitable enterprises.

The thesis is concentrated on a research based on turbofolk music in diaspora from the former Yugoslav countries. When speaking about turbofolk, the term can be explained as a type of popular music combined with folk elements. It originates in the former Yugoslav countries, but similar pop-folk genres can be found in other European and non- European countries as well. People with immigration background living in diaspora can possess different types of relations towards this type of music than their counterparts in the ex-Yugoslav countries. Especially, certain common tendencies can be observed among the diaspora youth cosuming turbofolk. This work will primarily give answers to the basic questions including attitudes towards turbofolk in the ex-Yugoslav diaspora. It will describe turbofolk scene in the diaspora and show its extensiveness. In particular it will be focused on the Austrian case (concerning practising turbofolk etc.). Nevertheless, it will also investigate contemporary tendencies in identification with turbofolk. Key words turbofolk, diaspora, Yugoslavia, identity, Austria

Esta dissertação reconstitui a trajetória da família de Nissim, Streia e Vivetta Eskenazy, judeus sefaraditas sérvios, sobreviventes da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A primeira parte da pesquisa (Raízes) traz a história de quatro famílias tipicamente sefaraditas, Eskenazy, Ozmo, Russo e Romano, os antepassados de Nissim e Streia, desde meados do século XIX até antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A segunda parte da pesquisa (Ruptura) procura esclarecer o processo histórico que deu origem à invasão nazista na Iugoslávia, a partir de seis de abril de 1941 e quais podem ter sido as ações e decisões dos Eskenazy nesse período. A terceira parte da pesquisa (Travessia ou Travessias?) traz o detalhamento dos percursos dos Eskenazy em busca de um porto-seguro durante a guerra. A quarta e última parte da pesquisa (Refúgio) detalha a busca de refúgio dos Eskenazy após a guerra e, finalmente, como chegaram ao Brasil. Além de colaborar com o arquivo de testemunhos do ArqShoah, da Universidade de São Paulo, nossa pesquisa é inédita em termos de língua portuguesa, pois o judaísmo e o Holocausto na Iugoslávia foram, até hoje, pouco estudados e debatidos para além das suas fronteiras e, em casos esporádicos, em Israel. Para colaborar com esse debate, além dos quatro capítulos centrais da dissertação, apresentamos em anexo uma história resumida do judaísmo na região. / This thesis reconstructs the trajectory of the family of Nissim, Streia and Vivetta Eskenazy, Serbian Sephardic Jews, survivors of Second World War. The first part of the document (Roots) tells the story of four typically Sephardic families, Eskenazy, Ozmo, Russo and Romano, the ancestors of Nissim and Streia, from the mid-19th century until Second World War eve. The second part of the document (Rupture) tries to clarify the historical process that gave rise to the Nazi invasion in Yugoslavia in April 6, 1941 and what may have been the actions and decisions of the Eskenazy in that period. The third part of the document (Crossing or Crossings?) details the Eskenazy routes in search of a safe haven during the war. The fourth and final part of the document (Refuge) details the Eskenazy search for refuge after the war, and finally how they arrived in Brazil. In addition to collaborating with the ArqShoah testimonial archive from Universidade de Sçao Paulo, our research is unprecedented in terms of Portuguese language, since Judaism and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia have until now been little studied and debated beyond its borders and, in sporadic cases, in Israel. To support this debate, in addition to the four central chapters of the thesis, we have attached a brief history of Judaism in the region.

Thesis advisor: Kathleen Bailey / Although the Croatian and Bosnian wars of the early 1990s were brought to a peaceful conclusion over ten years ago, they remain pertinent events today both for the study of political science and future attempts at global conflict resolution. While they are often characterized as ethnic conflicts, this study poses the question of whether a conflict can ever truly be ethnic in the sense that the sole motivation for violence is ethnic hatred rather than strategic considerations. This question brings the motivations for violence in the Yugoslav case into question. This project explores relevant literature on contemporary theories of ethnic conflict and surveys events in the region from the arrival of the Slavic people to the Balkans in the sixth century to occurrences as recent as 2006. The conflicts are viewed in terms of more general views about conflict prevention and resolution as well as being more specifically applied to the current conflict in Iraq. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

This thesis will determine the factors that have affected the economy in the countries from ex-Yugoslavia. A couple of regression analyses will test the correlation between GDP Growth or GDP per Capita and twelve independent variables. The analyses tell us that high import ratio, low inflation and not being in an intrastate war are associated with high GDP Growth, where high political rights, being a member of the European Union or having a status as a Candidate Country are associated with high GDP per Capita. The explanation for the different result might be the catch up effect.

This thesis uses the example of Yugoslavia-the land of the South Slavs (also known as the Balkans) - to study how the twists and turns of historical evolution have been reflected in communal understanding of that history.

This thesis uses the example of Yugoslavia-the land of the South Slavs (also known as the Balkans) - to study how the twists and turns of historical evolution have been reflected in communal understanding of that history.

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2002. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-146).