Constitutional changes and state unity in the rhetoric "Anti-bureaucratic revolutions" in Serbia

Abstract

We call "An­ti-bu­re­a­uc­ra­tic re­vo­lu­tion" the clash wit­hin the So­ci­a­list Com­mit­tee of Ser­bia, which to­ok pla­ce in the pe­riod bet­we­en 1987.and 1989, with the bro­a­dest po­li­ti­cal mo­bi­li­za­tion of ci­ti­zens, and the re­sult of which was con­sti­tu­ti­o­nal re­for­ma­tion of Ser­bia. Du­ring the ‘80s of the 20^th cen­tury, the Ser­bian Com­mu­nist le­a­der­ship had, mo­re or less ex­pli­citly, dis­pu­ted (qu­e­sti­o­ned) the le­gal-po­li­ti­cal and eco­no­mic or­der in Ser­bia and Yugo­sla­via, which was esta­blis­hed by the 1974. Con­sti­tu­tion. When it ca­me to exe­cu­ting (ca­rrying out) the con­sti­tu­ti­o­nal chan­ges and esta­blis­hing the sta­te unity, Slo­bo­dan Mi­lo­še­vić and Ivan Stam­bo­lić had ba­sed the­ir rhe­to­ric on si­mi­lar, and of­ten the sa­me at­ti­tu­des and ar­gu­ments.