Alternative to the Soviet economic development path: the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in the 60s — 70s. XX century

Abstract

In isolation the FPRY had to look for new ways of existence. Tito and his associates understood the need to create a new economic system, taking into account the realities that arose after the break with the USSR, up until Tito’s death in 1980. Yugoslavia was a springboard for an uninterrupted economic experiment. The Socialist Republic of Slovenia, being one of the most developed republics of Yugoslavia, often acted as the initiator of various economic transformations in the country. The thesis of the unwillingness to “pull back the backward republics and territories” became the main one in polemics with the center. The desire to gain economic independence did not leave indifferent the intellectuals, which spoke more and more about the necessity of respecting the culture and maintaining the independent cultural development of the peoples of Yugoslavia.