Editing Vojvodina (section)

===Socialist Yugoslavia===
For decades, the province enjoyed only a small level of autonomy within Serbia. Under the 1974 Yugoslav constitution, it gained extensive rights of self-rule, as both Kosovo and Vojvodina were given ''de facto'' veto power in the Serbian and Yugoslav parliaments. Changes to their status could not be made without the consent of the two Provincial Assemblies.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

The 1974 Serbian constitution, adopted at the same time, reiterated that "the Socialist Republic of Serbia comprises the [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina]] and the [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo]], which originated in the common struggle of nations and nationalities of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War (the Second World War) and socialist revolution".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bjelica|first=Slobodan|title=Views of Vojvodinian Leadership on Re-Opening the Issue of the Relationship Between Sr Serbia and Sap Vojvodina in 1981|date=2016|url=http://istrazivanja.ff.uns.ac.rs/index.php/istr/article/view/1885|journal=Istraživanja: Journal of Historical Researches|language=en|issue=27|pages=258–273|doi=10.19090/i.2016.27.258-273|issn=2406-1131|doi-access=free}}</ref>

[[File:Novi Sad, Mihajla Pupina, budova vlády Vojvodiny večer.jpg|right|thumb|[[Banovina Palace]], the seat of the Provincial [[Government of Vojvodina]], at night.]]
In 1990s, during the [[Croatian War of Independence|war in Croatia]] in [[persecution of Croats in Serbia during Yugoslav Wars]] was organized and participated in the expulsion of the Croats in some places in Vojvodina. Based on an investigation by the ''Humanitarian Law Fund'' from Belgrade in the course of June, July, and August 1992, more than 10,000 Croats from Vojvodina exchanged their property for the property of Serbs from Croatia, and altogether about 20,000 Croats left Serbia.<ref>[http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/trae/archive/data/199506/50619-002-trae-beo.htm Croats in Serbia which is not in war with Croatia, With head stuck into sand]</ref> According to other estimations, the number of Croats which have left Serbia under political pressure of Milošević's regime might be between 20,000 and 40,000.<ref>[http://www.mvpei.hr/hmiu/tekst.asp?q=hnm007 Hrvatska nacionalna manjina u Srbiji] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311170041/http://www.mvpei.hr/hmiu/tekst.asp?q=hnm007 |date=March 11, 2009 }}</ref> According to Petar Kuntić of [[Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina]], 50,000 Croats were pressured to move out from Serbia during the Yugoslav wars.<ref>{{in lang|sr}} [http://www.danas.org/content/article/1622985.html?page=2 Sedamnaest godina od proterivanja Hrvata iz Hrtkovaca, Zoran Glavonjić]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=05&dd=06&nav_id=66956 |title=Anniversary of SRS rally in Vojvodina town |access-date=2011-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510192931/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=05&dd=06&nav_id=66956 |archive-date=2010-05-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Under the rule of Serbian president [[Slobodan Milošević]], a series of protests against Vojvodina's party leadership took place during the summer and autumn of 1988, which forced it to resign. Eventually Vojvodina and Kosovo had to accept Serbia's constitutional amendments that practically dismissed the autonomy of the provinces in Serbia. Vojvodina and Kosovo lost elements of statehood in September 1990 when the new constitution of the Republic of Serbia was adopted.

Vojvodina was still referred to as an autonomous province of Serbia, but most of its autonomous powers – including, crucially, its vote on the Yugoslav collective presidency – were transferred to the control of Belgrade, the capital. The province still had its own parliament and government, and some other autonomous functions as well. According to Đorđe Tomić, this is an example of a [[phantom border]].<ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/tomic-dorde-2014-11-28/PDF/tomic.pdf|title="Phantomgrenzen" in Zeiten des Umbruchs – die Autonomieidee in der Vojvodina der 1990er Jahre|author=Đorđe Tomić|date=28 November 2014|publisher=Philosophische Fakultät I |doi=10.18452/17174 }} Dissertation. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2015.</ref>