ABSTRACT
In the 1960s, among all the Eastern bloc countries, Yugoslavia was probably the most similar to the Western world. At the same time, the country’s self-management model, in spite of its shortcomings, was a model of employee participation. Nearly all institutions were based on self-management. Moreover, in Yugoslavia, except in areas that were formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which means Slovenia and Croatia, cultural patterns were at work that were a little closer to the patterns of Turkish rather than Western European culture. The conference in Split was attended by over one hundred people, including ten women. Whenever a woman took the floor, most of the Serb men would step out of the room. After the tragic civil war and the breakup of Yugoslavia—and the instant recognition by Poland of Kosovo after it broke away from Serbia-Poland and Poles are perceived much less kindly there.
