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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949- Three Yugoslavias. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006 (OCoLC)607672824 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sabrina P Ramet |
| ISBN: | 0253346568 9780253346568 |
| OCLC Number: | 61687845 |
| Description: | xxvi, 817 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. A theory of system legitimacy -- 2. The first Yugoslavia, part 1 : the kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovens, 1918-1929 -- 3. The first Yugoslavia, part 2 : the kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1929-1941 -- 4. World war two and the partisan struggle, 1941-1945 -- 5. Happy comrades? Tito, Stalin, and the birth of the second Yugoslavia, 1945-1951 -- 6. Dreaming a new dream, 1950-1962 -- 7. The reform crisis, 1962-1970 -- 8. The rise and fall of Yugoslav liberalism, 1967-1973 -- 9. Controversies in the economic sector, 1965-1990 -- 10. Nationalist tensions, 1968-1990 -- 11. A crisis of legitmacy, 1974-1989 -- 12. Hail Caesar! The rise of Slobodan Milosevic -- 13. The road to war -- 14. The war of Yugoslav succession, phase 1 (1991) -- 15. The war of Yugoslav succession, phase 2 (1992-1995) -- 16. A flawed peace : post-Dayton Bosnia -- 17. The third Yugoslavia and after, 1992-2005 -- 18. UNMIK, KFOR, and the future of Kosovo -- 19. Separate paths : Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia -- 20. Conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | Sabrina P. Ramet. |
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<p>Ramet (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology) is a distinguishedleading scholar on Yugoslavia who has made important contributions to thesubstantial literature on that unhappy land. This first-rate volume is asubstantially enlarged, rewritten edition of Nationalism and Federalism inYugoslavia, 1962, 1991 (CH, Feb'93, 30 -- 3476). It is a must read posing bigquestions, e.g., why Yugoslavs have repeatedly failed to create an effectivelegitimate state structure and rule of law. Ramet rejects the myth, unfortunatelywidespread in the West, that the driving force has been ethnic conflict and ancienthatreds. Her work complements the study by V. P. Gagnon Jr., The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s (CH, Sep'05, 43 -- 0597), by focusing on elitebehavior. While she looks at prior state -- building efforts (1918 -- 29), sheconcentrates chiefly on Tito's Yugoslavia. Nearly half of this thick volume coversthe post, 1989 period through KFOR and Kosovo. The inclusion of 150 pa Read more...
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- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century.
- Yugoslavia -- Politics and government.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
- Yugoslavia -- Ethnic relations.
- Nationalism -- Yugoslavia.
- Former Yugoslav republics -- History.
- Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995.
- Nationalisme -- Yougoslavie.
- Yougoslavie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Yougoslavie -- Politique et gouvernement.
- Yougoslavie -- Relations interethniques.
- Ex-Yougoslavie -- Histoire.
- Gründung.
- Entstehung.
- Staat.
- Jugoslawien.
- Serbien.
- Kroatien.
- Slowenien.
- Makedonien.

