ABSTRACT
One cannot describe the present-day crisis of the Yugoslav system without first analyzing the genesis of that system and its relationship to the original model from which the political socialization of postwar Yugoslav society is derived. Any analysis of Yugoslav society and the social system that took shape after World War II must take into account the fact that the postwar structure of Yugoslav society was modeled after the Soviet pattern. The result was a society that built new elements of a market economy and new institutions of workers’ councils and other self-management bodies into the foundations of the established structure of social and production relations. The most salient feature of Yugoslav society with respect to actually existing socialism is reflected in the difference between the sociopolitical system and its institutions, with a still strong trend toward tightening party/ideological control over institutionalized forms of life and work, and the actual forms of everyday life and conduct.
