ABSTRACT
Yugoslavia comprises of Serbia and Montenegro, together with two regions that have been considered semi-autonomous, Kosovo and Vojvodina, both in Serbia. Kosovo has a population that is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, while Vojvodina has a significant Hungarian minority. On 3 October 1929, the kingdom of the Croats, Serbs and Slovenes was formally named Yugoslavia and was a tightly controlled state, dominated by Serbia. Orthodox communists, Yugoslavia did not follow Soviet directives and was expelled from the communist bloc in 1948. With Western help, it then developed its own form of democratic socialism. The president, Slobodan Milosevic, though a proponent of greater Serbia, was forced to accept the plan for the cantonisation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in May 1993. Milosevic was bitterly blamed for this, particularly when, in April 1995, Croatia recovered what had been announced as the Republic of Serbian Krajina. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) began a guerrilla war and, early in 1998, the Serbian police responded violently.
