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The most industrialized and ethnically homogenous republic. The Two Autonomous Provinces (Within Serbia) Kosovo: Featuring a large ethnic Albanian majority.

: After Tito's death in 1980, the collective presidency proved ineffective. A massive debt crisis, the rise of nationalist leaders like Slobodan Milošević, and the loss of its Cold War "buffer" status led to violent secessionist wars. The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia - PDXScholar

As the global ideological cold war wound down in the late 1980s, the unifying power of communism evaporated, leaving an ideological void that local political opportunists quickly filled with virulent eth-nonationalism.