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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813151603321

Autore

Ramet Sabrina P. <1949->

Titolo

Balkan babel : the disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the fall of Milosevic / / Sabrina P. Ramet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado, : Westview Press, 2002

ISBN

0-429-97503-1

1-283-26147-2

9786613261472

0-8133-4618-5

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 pages)

Disciplina

949.702/4

Soggetti

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Nationalism - Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia History 1980-1992

Yugoslavia History 1992-2003

Yugoslavia Ethnic relations

Former Yugoslav republics History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Abbreviations; Credits; Foreword, Ivo Banac; Preface to the fourth edition; Map of Yugoslavia, 1946-1991; Map of Bosnia-Herzegovina, September 1994; Map of Bosnia-Herzegovina, February 1998; Part I; Disintegration, 1980-1991; 1 Political Debate, 1980-1986; 2 The Gathering Storm, 1987-1989; 3 Brotherhood and Disunity, 1989-1991; Part II; Religion and Culture; 4 The Catholic Church; 5 The Serbian Orthodox Church; 6 Islam; 7 Rock Music; Part III; War and Transition; 8 Serbia and Croatia at War Again; 9 On Their Own: Slovenia and Macedonia Since 1991; 10 The Struggle for Bosnia

11 Repercussions of the War in Religion, Gender Relations, and Culture Part IV; Peace Without Rights?; 12 A Peace of Dayton; 13 Milosevic, Kosovo, and the Principle of Legitimacy; 14 Serbia's Unending Crisis; Epilogue: The Legitimacy Problem; Anti-bibliography: Reviewing the Reviews; About the Book and the Author; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Yugoslavia's would-be system-builders failed three times over to build a workable system. The underlying problem was their failure to resolve the problem of legitimacy. In the 1980's, economic deterioration pushed people to despair and, under the pressure of Serbia's ambitious political establishment, the country broke up along ethnic fault lines. This volume, now in its fourth expanded edition, tells the story of socialist Yugoslavia's troubles and the challenges facing its successor states from May 1980 to July 2001.