ABSTRACT
Yugoslavia claimed to have "solved" its national problems, and Tito was one of the top leaders of the nonaligned movement. The country is struggling under the load of a 200 percent annual inflation rate and continually declining real incomes and faces a problem of deepening national divisions. In 1971, Tito had still been able to control the reformist Croatian crisis. Interwar Yugoslavia, primarily because it was so dominated by Serbia, exposed its inner weaknesses when Adolf Hitler invaded it in April 1941, initially with little non-Serb resistance. The Communists drew some consequences from Yugoslavia's problems before and during the war when they made their constitution at Jajce in 1943. The south Slav peoples, who had moved together in the years before 1918 and eventually founded the Yugoslav state at the end of World War I, differed about the character and structure of their future state.
