ABSTRACT
Yugoslav socialist urbanization brought about the decay of towns in the first post-war decade. Moreover, the political and economic pressures imposed by the Party were ruining the remaining pre-war urban population. Urbanization and the process of industrialization that European countries had gone through in the nineteenth century took place in Yugoslavia only after the Second World War. Yugoslav socialist urbanization amounted, in some way, in accordance with the Marxist theories, ultimately to the eradication of the differences between cities and villages. Another area of urban life that transformed drastically in Yugoslavia after the Second World War was cultural life and entertainment. Paradoxically, it fell to the Party officials, the majority of whom were intimidated by a city and could hardly adopt the urban way of life in a true sense of the meaning, to become the leaders of the urbanization and modernization processes in socialist Yugoslavia after the Second World War.
