ABSTRACT
Since 1992, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) has had ambitions to be the third South Slav (Yugoslav) state consisting of the two remaining republics of the Second Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). Serbs form the biggest population within Serbia proper, Vojvodina and FRY. The Serbian peasant and patriarchal zadruga traditions grew during Turkish rule and remained during the Communist era. Job nepotism was a result of family loyalties originally established within the zadruga system. The Kosovo battle has had a long and crucial significance for Serbia and the Serbs’ identity. After the beginning of the First World War, a number of South Slav politicians and intellectuals from Austria-Hungary established a Yugoslav Committee in London supported by the government of Serbia. Internal security problems of the Second Yugoslavia primarily concerned the idea of the state. Yugoslav census figures reflected fluctuations between a Montenegrin and Serb identity.
