ABSTRACT
The peasant family during the inter-war period continued to increase its contacts with the outer world and so to lose its former autarchical position. The process, which in the prewar period had diminished the number and size of zadrugas in the areas, such as Croatia and northern Serbia, most closely linked with Europe, was now spreading to the more primitive and isolated districts. In both Bosnia and Macedonia there was an increase in the proportion of normal family households to zadrugas, and ‘modern zadrugas are weaker and do not last so long’. 1
