ABSTRACT
The Muslims entered the post-Tito era in a more equitable position in Bosnia than they had enjoyed since they lost their status as part of the ruling class in the Ottoman Empire. The political dynamics of the post-Tito era were thus a far cry from what Josip Broz Tito had intended when he altered the system in the 1970s. The post-Tito era boded well for Yugoslavia. Bosnia and Herzegovina shared in and contributed to the prosperity in Yugoslavia. During the 1970s, the Bosnian Muslims seemed to attain a larger proportion of important jobs and influence within the Bosnian republic. The Bosnian Muslim intellectuals initially advanced a theory that did not threaten the identity or authority of other nations within Yugoslavia. The gradual confederaliza-tion of politics in Yugoslavia indicated that although the Serbs had not lost their dominance in many traditional areas of their control, other groups were making inroads into their quasi-monopoly of power and influence.
