La crise yougoslave: Les aspects historiques

Abstract

This article deals with different historical aspects of contemporary crisis
in former Yugoslavia. As first, with structural causes: different degrees of
cultural and economic development, religious diversities, absense of political
culture and religious tolerance and the lack of a common democratic background
in the past. The author stresses that different rythmes of national
integration, based on opposed models (jacobin within Serbia, and feudalbased on historical right in Croatia) provoked fundamental misunderstandings
which proved crucial in the political life of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Secondly, this article shows the ideological causes of the recent dissolution of
communist Yugoslavia. Analysing the ideological bases for recent wars, the
author finds them in a national policy of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
which manipulated with national clashes first to impose and then to maintain
its power. Present wars are direct consequence of Titoist national policy
which was viable only in one-party system and which was cemented by a
possible threat of a Soviet invasion from 1948, up to the fall of Berlin Wall