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Yugoslav Socialism And Its Aftermath As Viewed Through The Lens Of Personal Experiences In The Balkans, 1953-2004, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

In this brief essay it is my intention to focus on how Yugoslav government policies affected my research. At the same time I wish to explore the much more important question as to the ways in which the Yugoslav variety of socialism, as developed in a centralized communist and ideologically bound state, affected the everyday lives of the people in that country. The time frame I am considering is some four decades beginning with the early 1950s. The events recounted here from memory are not intended as an established view of the past but rather as a compilation of selected …