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1980 WITNESSED IN YUGOSLAVIA ONE OF THE GRAVEST ECONOMIC CRISES THAT THE COUNTRY HAS EXPERIENCED SINCE WORLD WAR II. UNEMPLOYMENT WAS ABOVE 700,000, FOREIGN TRADE DEFICIT WAS ACCELERATING, INCREASES IN PRICES COULD NOT BE BALANCED BY INCREASES IN WAGES. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE REPRESSION AND EFFECTS, THE ROLE OF SELF-MANAGEMENT, THE WORKERS' DEMOCRAIN A COMMUNIST STATE, TITO'S RULING CLASS AND STABILITY.

ALL INVITATIONS TO WRITE SOMETHING THAT COME WITH FAR distant deadlines are a subtle exercise in entrapment (and I speak here from experience as both hunter and quarry) resting on the usual tendency to discount the future. How could anyone resist the temptation to talk about everybody's favourite subject – themselves – when it is enhanced by the flattery implicit in the suggestion that other people might be interested? So easy too: just a few thousand words about changes in the discipline in the last twenty-five years and the way in which one sees it.

The twentieth century has been a time of great economic and social stress during which people have experienced war, economic depression, and the failure of philosophical sustenance. Technological discoveries, which have prolonged life, have also presented older people with problems of adjustment for which they are ill prepared. Only their remarkable capacities for adaptation, relearning, and renewal have armed them to withstand the onslaught of diminishing physiological, cultural, and social attacks.

The twentieth century has been a time of great economic & social stress during which people have experienced war, economic depression, & the failure of philosophical sustenance. Technological discoveries that have prolonged life have also presented older people with problems of adjustment for which they are ill prepared. Only their remarkable capacities for adaptation, relearning, & renewal have armed them to withstand the onslaught of diminishing physiological, cultural, & social attacks. HA.