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The Fall of Yugoslavia: Why Communism Failed
by Svetozar Stojanovic
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prometheus Books (1997-06)
ISBN: 1573921467
EAN: 9781573921466
Dewy Decimal #: 949.7023
Hardcover: 341 pages
Edition: Subsequent
SKU: 08080199
Condition: Very Good Very Good
Comments: Hardback in very good plus condition with no markings. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor shelf wear. Tight binding and clear crisp text. Very nice book.
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Product Description
A leading Yugoslav dissident offers valuable insights into the demise of communism and the bloody mayhem that followed in its wake. The collapse of communism in Europe liberated Yugoslavia only to see it plunge into a brutal civil war between religious, ethnic, and nationalist factions. Why did communism's non-violent end ignite a nationalist war that has exacted such a high price in human suffering? International affairs scholar Svetozar Stojanovi - a member of the famous Praxis group that resisted the communists has studied the developments in his war-torn homeland. He examines the internal and external factors that forced the transition from communist rule to democracy and a free-market economy. His insider's, behind-the-scenes look at the internal power struggles that pull factions in various directions, examines the cultural weaknesses of communism, the "capitalist encirclement" of Marxist-socialist economies, communism's ideological decay, and the roles played by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. "The Fall of Yugoslavia" also examines the international reaction to these historic developments. Stojanovi urges the West not to fall victim to a "triumphalistic temptation", with as yet unforeseen consequences, but to anticipate and face the problems in this volatile Yugoslav region.
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Fall of Yugoslavia
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-04-09
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The author, a professor from Serbia, analyzes his experiences as a dissident against the former Communist government of Yugoslavia, and the government of Slobodan Milosevic, emphasizing the required nationalism of any viable opposition, and attempting to rehabilitate his academic colleague Dobrica Cosic as well as other associates. At the same time, the author thoroughly and convincingly condemns exclusionary and militaristic nationalism, as obsolete and mortally dangerous to mankind. Not a narrative of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book instead illustrates dilemmas facing Western-democratically inclined intellectuals in Serbia.
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