Intellectuals in power: Social patterns in the formative years of second Yugoslavia

pages: 121-135

Abstract

Political history of the Second Yugoslavia was continuously sacral, while secularization mainly took place within the arts’ domain. The Cominform (Informbiro) and split with the SSR opened up a space for greater freedom of creativity (Kardelj, Đilas, Šegedin) and for the abandonment of the socialist realism and its attempt to control the content of art (Zogović). A third position on literature was promoted by Vladan Desnica. Keywords: The Second Yugoslavia, intellectuals, ideology, socialist realism, creativity, literature