A Brief History Of Kosovo

This oral report analysis is based on the social, economic and cultural aspect of Kosovo during the Yugoslavia. These three aspects of life on that time are highly touched by political situation. The whole analysis is based on the interview of Nida’s grandfather who was the famous merchant of Prizren and the data taken from the history book by John B. Allcock. Prizren is the small and ancient city which is located in southern part of Kosovo. As we analyzed these three aspects of life partial things of an interviewed person was fit to the circumstances described by the history of the world.

Firstly, the history tells us that those countries involved in Yugoslavia had very successful communist economic system which means that they were constantly communist. However as we analyzed the interview we concluded that Yugoslavia was not as any other communist country in economy aspect because it has some phases which change its image during the different time periods. Hidden fact from the written history of Yugoslavia is that during the 1945s in Kosovo lands are taken from peasants which has resulted in the drastic decline of the economy of Kosovo. The small number of population has survived from this economic chaos but with less material and cultural wealth.

The history denies this economic crisis but in real life this economic crisis has lasted until the 1950s. However after the following years of 1950s the situation begun to change in which the Yugoslavia started to investigate by building factories and hiring many people in order to reduce unemployment rate. The interview person states that new factories were the great economic opportunity for the survived people in Kosovo. Moreover Prizren on that time w...

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...history does not state that the year 1945 is the beginning step for assimilation of the wealthy families in terms of cultural aspect of Kosovo. Furthermore we noted that during the 1945s-1966s population has converted from feudal society to communist society which caused a great deal to population of Kosovo because these two different kinds of societies were two opposite way of life style.

All these information about a person life reflect us to see that there were many things of a real life that does not fit with the written history. In this concluding sentence we want to emphasize the fact that circumstances were so different in various fields of economy, social and cultural. Moreover the circumstances for these fields were highly related to political situation of Kosovo which means that politic is the basic development tool for every aspect of life.