The following contribution emphasizes that the crisis in the 1980s, leading to the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the attainment of Slovenia independence, is not only a result of critical economic situation and national aspirations of individual nations, but also a deep crisis of the political system, lasting for several decades, which was only intensified by the 1974 Constitution. The Slovenian communist leadership not prepared for deeper changes and rigidly clinging to “Kardelj’s system”; could not contribute anything in order to solve the tensions and problems.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2566004Economy and its etatist character on one hand and the wish for decentralization on the other hand gave rise to the political crisis in the beginning of the 1960s. The reason for the crises may have lied in the economy, but in reality the causes were political and national, stemming from the social or economic differences among the individual parts of the state or the republics. The reforms in the 1960s had a national character. Besides the federation reform also the 1960s economy reform was essential.
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