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

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, ilas, egedin) and for the abandonment of the socialist realism and its attempt to control the content of art (Zogovi ). A third position on literature was promoted by Vladan Desnica.