Yugoslavia: Internal Situation in Yugoslavia

A file containing documents relating to the internal situation in Yugoslavia. Subjects covered in the file include the activities of two prominent Yugoslav dissidents, Mihajlo Mihajlov and Milovan Đilas; two film festivals marred by political and artistic disagreements; a controversial art exhibition in Belgrade; a swing back to centralised decision-making following a period of extreme decentralisation of political power; and the death of a lawyer, Joran Barovi?, who had represented several dissidents. Other subjects discussed in the file include the continued domination of Yugoslav politics by the president, Josip Broz Tito, despite his age; the view that the political leadership as a whole was ageing and not renewing itself quickly enough; a lecture by the former British ambassador in Belgrade, Duncan Wilson, on the principle of "workers' self-management"; and the contrast between rich and poor areas in the country, with the autonomous province of Kosovo described as "chronically backward".