ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the multinational region of Vojvodina and the way they organized their life within the relations between the numerical majority, which is more and more the dominating one, and the first group of the minorities. Vojvodina is an agricultural and relatively prosperous region of multinational character. Vojvodina was the scene of several overthrows that marked the 20th century: the World Wars, the creation and disintegration of the states of which it was made a part. After World War II, Vojvodina’s multinational structure changed once again: nearly the whole of the German population were deported and their property confiscated. The communists in Vojvodina controlled the process of the reestablishment of confidence between the different national communities. The Serbo-Hungarian relations have effectively deteriorated compared to the situation before the civil war and the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The majority talked of deterioration while the others talked of a refund balance, of a justified re-establishment of power relations.