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The disintegration of Yugoslavia is the result of a long-term process. One of the factors that contributed to the disintegration was undoubtedly the Yugoslavian constitution of 1974; certain principles of the constitution, especially the newly intended solutions to national issues and the control system of the federation, proved to be particularly ineffective at the time of the crisis at the turn of the 1980's and 1990's. Nevertheless, the constitution was received with enthusiasm in 1974, except by certain Serbian political leaders. This was because the constitution newly made both autonomous Serbian districts - Kosovo with Metochia and Vojvodina - full members of the federation. Serbia perceived the constitutional articles about the autonomous districts as damaging to its interests and felt discriminated against with respect to Yugoslavian republics without autonomous districts. The conservative part of Serbian leaders never accepted the constitution and started to pursue a revision that would restrict the power of Serbian autonomous districts shortly after its adoption. The aim of this study is to describe these Serbian revisionist efforts: