LEADER 03206nam 2200541I 450 001 9910795074803321 005 20190626093833.0 010 $a1-350-98857-X 010 $a1-78672-184-8 010 $a1-78673-184-3 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350988576 035 $a(CKB)4340000000262918 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5338700 035 $a(OCoLC)1114405664 035 $a(UkLoBP)a00000012 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000262918 100 $a20160926d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Croatian Spring $enationalism, repression and foreign policy under Tito /$fAnte Batovic? ; translated, edited and expanded by Ante Batovic? and Benjamin Bilski ; with a foreword by Robin Harris 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aPolitics & international relations 300 $aThe Croatian spring is an expanded, adapted and translated version of Dr Bartovic's doctoral thesis, defended at University of Zadar, 2010. 311 $a0-7556-0100-9 311 $a1-78453-927-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region. Using primary sources not previously utilized by western scholars, this book documents the 'Croatian Spring' - a national and liberal movement that began in the mid-sixties after the fall of the vice president and head of the Yugoslav secret police Aleksandar Rankovic. The author chronicles these developments of democratisation and de-centralisation of communist Yugoslavia, placing them in the wider context of the Cold War and Yugoslav relations with the Soviet Union and the UnitedStates. Tito managed to balance national stability and his relations with East and West, until he felt that the national-liberal movements challenged his authority, and thus threaten the very foundations of the Yugoslav state. From late 1971 onwards, the liberal political and cultural classes of Croatia and other republics were abruptly purged, impoverishing Yugoslav leadership for subsequent decades.Batovic also considers the role of the West, who felt a centralised and stable Yugoslavia was in their interests and quickly accommodated themselves to the repression of the reformist movement."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aPolitics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing) 606 $aNationalism$zCroatia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics & International Relations 606 $2European history 607 $aYugoslavia$xHistory$y1945-1980 607 $aYugoslavia$xPolitics and government$y1945-1980 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 4$aPolitics & International Relations 676 $a949.7023 700 $aBatovic?$b Ante$01537862 702 $aBilski$b Benjamin 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795074803321 996 $aThe Croatian Spring$93787427 997 $aUNINA