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Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia From the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0813339057, 9780813339054
LCC
DR1307 .R36 2002
Open Library ID
OL3553223M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
47 MB (49734277 bytes)
Edition
4th
Pages
440\448
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia’s political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on power—either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an “ethnically cleansed” Greater Serbia. With her detailed knowledge of the area and extensive fieldwork, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavia’s demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.

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