Decline of a Federation of States
Story of Yugoslavia Decline of a Federation of States Abstracts: Yugoslavia, a federation of states which was created by Slavs in the year 1918, initially as a monarchy under King Alexander l named as ‘Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes’. In 1929, the name of this country was changed to ‘Kingdom of Yugoslavia’, a democratic country from 1918 to 1945. In the year 1945 the country adopted a socialist system and Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was changed to Socialist Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia. During Cold war, the country pursued policy of non-alignment. After death of the president, General Josip Broz Tito the country became unstable and due to ethnic conflicts along with political and economic instability, the federation collapsed, starting with Slovenia and Croatia in 1991 till Montenegro in 2006, leaving no entity of a federation named ‘Yugoslavia’. Introductio