ABSTRACT
Being a multinational country with a more or less "liberal" communist system, Yugoslavia witnessed at least five types of dissent: dissent resulting from nationality quarrels; dissent in response to the economic crisis; dissent brought on by political issues; dissent over religious issues; and dissent within the state apparatus, that is, the struggle between federal and regional authorities. All five were interconnected and influenced one another. The conflict between the Serbs and the Croats, for instance, had ethnic, economic, and religious aspects, which influenced both ideological issues and the conflict between the federal and regional authorities. All five types of dissent manifested themselves daily in Serbia, which was divided into three parts: Serbia proper, and the Autonomous Provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The most liberal groups in Yugoslavia, even among the Communists, were to be found in Slovenia, the country's westernmost republic, bordering on Austria and Italy, which had been part of Austria for more than 800 years.
