Volume 37, Number 12 · July 19, 1990
The New Yugoslavia
By Michael Scammell
Human Rights in Yugoslavia
edited by Oskar Gruenwald, edited by Karen Rosenblum-Cale
Irvington Publishers, 673 pp., $49.50
Yugoslavia: Prisoners of Conscience
Amnesty International, 95 pp., £2.00
The recent elections in Slovenia and Croatia demonstrated that, at least in the north of Yugoslavia, Tito's system of government has become obsolete. In both places (as I reported in the June 28 issue) the newly elected leaders called for a pluralist political system, a market economy, and a greater degree of independence for their republics. Many people in the south of Yugoslavia—in Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro—would support this view, but there are not enough of them to create a consensus that the rule of the Communist party must end and a new system must replace it. Viewed from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia as well as of the federal republic, the political landscape looks very different from the landscape seen from Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital, or Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
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