BALKAN BABEL by Ramet, Sabrina Petra ISBN 0813339057
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In the 1980s, under economic deterioration and the pressure of Serbia's ambitious political establishment, Yugoslavia broke up along ethnic fault lines. This volume recounts socialist Yugoslavia's troubles and the challenges facing its successor states from May 1980 to December 2000.
Yugoslavias 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 1980s, economic deterioration pushed people to despair and, under the pressure of Serbias ambitious political establishment, the country broke up along ethnic fault lines. This volume, now in its fourth expanded edition, tells the story of socialist Yugoslavias troubles and the challenges facing its successor states from May 1980 to December 2000. 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 Yugoslavias 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 powereither 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 Yugoslavias demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.
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[edit] Title
BALKAN BABEL
[edit] Author
Ramet, Sabrina Petra
[edit] ISBN
0813339057
[edit] Published
05/03/2002
[edit] Publisher
Westview Press Inc., U.S.
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
21.99 (GBP)
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21.99 (GBP)
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