The Yugoslav Century (1918–2006)
From the founding of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes through the socialist federation under Tito, the wars of the 1990s, and the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Yugoslav century encompasses the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941), the occupation and resistance of the Second World War, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito (1945–1992), and the violent dissolution of the federation in the 1990s.
Tito's Yugoslavia
Non-aligned, federal, and socialist, Tito's Yugoslavia was a distinctive project in Cold War Europe — economically experimental, politically authoritarian, and held together by federal balancing among constituent republics.
Dissolution and after
The wars of Yugoslav succession, the bombing of 1999, and the eventual independence of Montenegro (2006) and the declaration of independence by Kosovo (2008, contested) reshaped the region. The Republic of Serbia in its present borders dates to this period.