Socialist Republic of Croatia

Croatia, 1945–1990. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Socialist Republic of Croatia was a constituent republic and federated state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. By territory and population, it was the second largest republic in Yugoslavia, after the Socialist Republic of Serbia. In 1990, the government dismantled the single-party system of government installed by the League of Communists and adopted a multi-party democracy.

Seat of power: Zagreb

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• It had four full official names during its 48-year existence.
• Republics had only formal autonomy; initially, communist Yugoslavia was a highly centralized state, based on the Soviet model.
• Croatia became part of the Yugoslav federation in 1943 after the Second Session of the AVNOJ and through the resolutions of the ZAVNOH, Croatia's wartime deliberative body.

Picture

Dubrovnik, historically also known as Ragusa, is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea.

Image: Zysko serhii, CC BY-SA 4.0, file

Sources

• Socialist Republic of Croatia (Wikipedia)
• Socialist Republic of Croatia (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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