Aid from the West saves Yugoslavia from…
1950 CE
Aid from the West saves Yugoslavia from hunger in 1950, when a drought threatens the cities with starvation.
Yugoslavia in this year withdraws its diplomatic mission from Tiranë.
Yugoslavia’s break with the Soviet Union also inspires a search for a new model of socialism in Yugoslavia.
In this area Tito, never a theoretician, depends on the ideological formulations of his lieutenants, notably the Slovene revolutionary and politician Edvard Kardelj.
However, Tito supports the notion of workers' management of production, embodied in the formation of the first workers' councils in 1950.
In the process, Soviet-style central planning is abandoned and central agencies are trimmed.
One significant development of the split with the Soviet Union in 1948 is the movement of nonaligned countries, in which Tito's active involvement legitimates his independence from the Soviet Union while underlining the respect for national identity that has become so central to his domestic policy.
In June 1950, the Basic Law on the Management of State Economic Enterprises by Working Collectives takes the first steps toward what comes to be known as workers' self-management.
Largely the creation of Kardelj, Yugoslavia's vice-president and leading ideologist, self-management involves a looser system of planning control, with more initiative devolved to enterprises, local authorities, and a highly decentralized banking structure.
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