Includes index.

1. Wartime: the fateful events -- The background -- Serbia -- Croatia -- Slovenia -- The Partisans -- I. The Catholic Church -- 2. The immediate postwar years Croatia -- Trieste -- Slovenia and Istria -- 3. The trial of Archbishop Stepinac -- 4. The struggle between the church and the state, 1946-1953 -- II. The Serbian Orthodox Church -- 5. Liberation and its sequel -- 6. The struggle to hold the church together -- III. The legislative framework -- 7. The constitution and the laws -- IV. The Catholic Church -- 8 The change: why and how it took place -- V. The Serbian and Macedonian Orthodox Churches -- 9. Schisms and accommodations