The Yugoslav National Question and Economic Reforms in the Second Half of the 1960s: Underdevelopment, Integration and the Division of the Labor’s Surplus

Tomaž Ivešić

The Yugoslav National Question and Economic Reforms in the Second Half of the 1960s: Underdevelopment, Integration and the Division of the Labor’s Surplus

Key words: League of Communists of Yugoslavia, economic reforms, national question, self-management, underdevelopment

Abstract:
The article is focusing on the Yugoslav reform in the second half of the 1960s with a particular emphasis on the solutions for the problems of underdevelopment, economic integration, and the division of the labor’s surplus (profit). With these solutions, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia wanted to resolve the national question as well. After the initial success of the economic reform (1965), the final failure of the latter forced the Yugoslav communists into radical decentralization and new reforms, that would have led to a unified Yugoslav market. The reforms were debated in the federal Commission for Interethnic and Interrepublican Relations, where they discussed investments, the activities of the Fund for the underdeveloped regions, allocation of the capital and the beginning of the integrated Yugoslav market and the solving of the contemporary problems that occurred on the way to reaching the latter goal.

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