Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253346568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states.
The Three Yugoslavias
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253346568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253346568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states.
The Bridge on the Drina
Author: Ivo Andríc
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226020457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans ... stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it" and to the sufferings of the people of Bosnia.--Cover.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226020457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans ... stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it" and to the sufferings of the people of Bosnia.--Cover.
Thinking about Yugoslavia
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A unique survey of the evidence and academic debates surrounding the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A unique survey of the evidence and academic debates surrounding the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis
Author: Vesna Pešić
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The World and Yugoslavia's Wars
Author: Richard Henry Ullman
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 9780876091913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What can outside powers do now to help heal the terrible wounds caused by Yugoslavia's wars? Why did the victors in the Cold War and the 1991 Gulf War not act to stop the slaughter? The nature, scope, and meaning of the actions and inactions of outsiders is the subject of this book.
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN: 9780876091913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What can outside powers do now to help heal the terrible wounds caused by Yugoslavia's wars? Why did the victors in the Cold War and the 1991 Gulf War not act to stop the slaughter? The nature, scope, and meaning of the actions and inactions of outsiders is the subject of this book.
Serbia
Author: Marko Attila Hoare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019776942X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019776942X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.
Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse
Author: Christopher Bennett
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An incisive and revealing history of how Yugoslavia plunged into violence in the 1990s Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the West has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing, the sieges, and the brutality that has characterized the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Contrary to common wisdom, the hyper-violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia is not simply and exclusively the product of inherent and irrational ethnic animosities and centuries of strife. In this engaging book, journalist Christopher Bennett traces the turning point to the 1987 struggle within the Serbian Communist party which was between adherents of a Serb nationalist ideology -embodied by Slobodan Milosevic- and the other Yugoslavs who clung to the vision of a multinational state. As soon as Milosevic gained the upper hand, he ruthlessly purged his rivals and launched a massive campaign of media indoctrination to stir up Serb nationalism. This new nationalism, which has repelled the world since 1991, is primarily Milosevic's creation and not merely the result of historical enmity. As a student at two different Yugoslav universities in the 1980's, Bennett witnessed firsthand many if the critical events which contributed to Yugoslavia's destruction. He renders an incisive and accessible history, covering the period from Tito's dictatorship to the present day.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An incisive and revealing history of how Yugoslavia plunged into violence in the 1990s Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the West has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing, the sieges, and the brutality that has characterized the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Contrary to common wisdom, the hyper-violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia is not simply and exclusively the product of inherent and irrational ethnic animosities and centuries of strife. In this engaging book, journalist Christopher Bennett traces the turning point to the 1987 struggle within the Serbian Communist party which was between adherents of a Serb nationalist ideology -embodied by Slobodan Milosevic- and the other Yugoslavs who clung to the vision of a multinational state. As soon as Milosevic gained the upper hand, he ruthlessly purged his rivals and launched a massive campaign of media indoctrination to stir up Serb nationalism. This new nationalism, which has repelled the world since 1991, is primarily Milosevic's creation and not merely the result of historical enmity. As a student at two different Yugoslav universities in the 1980's, Bennett witnessed firsthand many if the critical events which contributed to Yugoslavia's destruction. He renders an incisive and accessible history, covering the period from Tito's dictatorship to the present day.
The Myth of Ethnic War
Author: V. P. Gagnon, Jr.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801468884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had only a few years earlier been seen as very well placed to join the west. In trying to account for this outburst, most western journalists, academics, and policymakers have resorted to the language of the premodern: tribalism, ethnic hatreds, cultural inadequacy, irrationality; in short, the Balkans as the antithesis of the modern west. Yet one of the most striking aspects of the wars in Yugoslavia is the extent to which the images purveyed in the western press and in much of the academic literature are so at odds with evidence from on the ground."—from The Myth of Ethnic War V. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power. He begins with facts at odds with the essentialist view of ethnic identity, such as high intermarriage rates and the very high percentage of draft-resisters. These statistics do not comport comfortably with the notion that these wars were the result of ancient blood hatreds or of nationalist leaders using ethnicity to mobilize people into conflict. Yugoslavia in the late 1980s was, in Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801468884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had only a few years earlier been seen as very well placed to join the west. In trying to account for this outburst, most western journalists, academics, and policymakers have resorted to the language of the premodern: tribalism, ethnic hatreds, cultural inadequacy, irrationality; in short, the Balkans as the antithesis of the modern west. Yet one of the most striking aspects of the wars in Yugoslavia is the extent to which the images purveyed in the western press and in much of the academic literature are so at odds with evidence from on the ground."—from The Myth of Ethnic War V. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power. He begins with facts at odds with the essentialist view of ethnic identity, such as high intermarriage rates and the very high percentage of draft-resisters. These statistics do not comport comfortably with the notion that these wars were the result of ancient blood hatreds or of nationalist leaders using ethnicity to mobilize people into conflict. Yugoslavia in the late 1980s was, in Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity.
Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1962-1991
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107180740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of how the Yugoslav successor states have coped with the challenges of building democracy since 1990.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107180740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of how the Yugoslav successor states have coped with the challenges of building democracy since 1990.