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THE MOST IMPORTANT FACT FOR UNDERSTANDING ALL POLITICAL PROCESSES IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO IS THE BREAK-UP OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV STATE IN JUNE 1991. FOLLOWING THIS, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA (FRY) WAS CREATED IN APRIL 1992. SINCE 1992, THE REAL POLITICAL QUESTION HAS BEEN THE FACT THAT IN THE FRY THE BASIC PRECONDITIONS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF THE AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM AND POLITICALLY REGULATED ECONOMY HAVE NOT YET BEEN CREATED. IN ADDITION, THERE IS NO FUNDAMENTAL CONSENSUS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO ON EITHER THE BORDERS AND CHARACTER OF THE STATE OR THE VALUES ON WHICH SOCIETY AND THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY SHOULD BE FOUNDED--WHICH ARE THE ELEMENTARY PRECONDITIONS FOR A DEMOCRATIC ORDER.

THE AUTHORS EXAMINE THE PHENOMENON OF "TRANSITION WITHOUT TRANSFORMATION," OR POSTCOMMUNISM WITH SUSPENDED CHANGE, IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF PRIVATIZATION. FIRST, THEY TRACE HOW THE PRIVATIZATION ACT ORIGINATED IN AN UNSUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC REFORM PROGRAM INTRODUCED BY THE LAST YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RAPID DISINTEGRATION OF THE YUGOSLAV STATE, WHICH EVENTUALLY ENDED IN ECONOMIC DISASTER AND CIVIL WAR. NEXT, THEY DESCRIBE THE PRIVATIZATION PROCESS IN DETAIL, EXPLAIN RELEVANT DATA, AND SHOW THAT THE STATISATION OF PROPERTY HAS BEEN THE REAL RESULT OF THE PROCESS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO. FINALLY, THEY EXAMINE RECENT DATA ON THE ECONOMY'S EMERGING PRIVATE SECTOR IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO.