When Bosnia and Herzogovina, which had been part of Yugoslavia, was declared an independent nation in 1992, it was made up of ethnic Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats. Bosnian Serbs, who were ...

Interestingly, besides excluding Albania, where an old-style Stalinist regime is still firmly in power, you did not even mention the dual paths of change in Yugoslavia. While the western part of ...

It has become fashionable to hate the late Yugoslavia, or to diagnose it retroactively as a kind of Frankenstein assemblage of mismatched parts whose dissolution was thus inescapable and ...

The Croats, on the other hand, have lately become more powerful because of rapid economic development in their northern region, part of a broad industrial step-up in Yugoslavia (see WORLD BUSINESS).

The movement is in stark contrast to Croatia’s recent past, when it was part of the former Yugoslavia, a Communist-run country that protected abortion rights in its constitution 50 years ago.