Regional Development in Communist Yugoslavia: Success, Failure, and Consequences. (book reviews)

Dijana Plestina has composed a cogent study which scrutinizes the origins and implications of regional economic disparity in the former Yugoslavia. She interviewed in depth and over a number of years an impressive group of 105 Yugoslav luminaries involved at various times and in various stages of Yugoslav regional development from study to execution.

Plestina confronts these experts with the problem, why did socialist Yugoslavia fail at every step in the post-World War II era to eliminate economic disparities among the various regions? While equalization of conditions for every region ...

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