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Author Hudson, Kate, 1958-

Title Breaking the South Slav dream : the rise and fall of Yugoslavia / Kate Hudson
Published London ; Sterling, VA : Pluto Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 192 pages)
Contents Introduction -- 1 The first Yugoslavia: origins and problems -- Yugoslavism and the origins of the state -- The war and its outcome -- Economic challenges in nation- building -- Political challenges in nation- building -- Peasants and communists -- Absolute rule -- 2 The Second World War -- The eve of war -- Division and occupation -- Resistance -- The cost of the war -- 3 The Tito years -- Establishing the new state -- The split with the Soviet Union -- Self- management -- Non- alignment -- Nations and constitutions -- Reasserting communist authority
4 Economic assault: the 1980s and the US drive for a free market -- Economic instability -- Political instability -- The question of Kosovo -- Milosevic -- 5 Crisis response -- Political change in Slovenia -- Multi- party elections -- Breakdown -- Slovenian secession -- 6 War: the first wave Croatia -- International interests -- Conflict with the JNA -- Negotiation and recognition -- 7 War: the second wave Bosnia -- The question of Islam -- The build- up to war -- The war begins -- The final stages -- The Dayton Accords -- 8 War: the third wave Kosovo -- The KLA and the move towards war
Rambouillet and the legality of the attack -- The NATO bombardment -- Kosovo after the war -- 9 Bringing down Milosevic and what came after -- Politics in Serbia -- The presidential election of 2000 -- Macedonia and Montenegro -- 10 Victors justice?? The trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- The charges -- Background -- The trial -- Racak -- Rambouillet -- An insider witness -- Notes -- Index -- Abdic, Fikret 117-18 -- Abyssinia 16 -- agriculture -- 15 -- 17 -- 37-8 -- 46-7 -- aid -- 39 -- 40 -- 42 -- 46 -- 49 -- 57 -- conditionality 148 -- conditionality 158 -- conditionality 159
Conditionality 160-1 -- Akashi, Yasushi 118 -- Albania -- 8 -- 27 -- 29 -- 44 -- 65 -- 66 -- 82 -- refugee crisis 134 -- Albanians -- 64 -- 65 -- 70 -- 74 -- 79 -- 108 -- 149-50 -- 151 -- Albright, Madeline -- 126 -- 127 -- 128 -- 129 -- Aldcroft, D.H. -- 18 -- 58 -- Alexander I -- 13 -- 23-4 -- Allcock, John B. 3 -- Almond, Mark 96 -- aluminium -- 16 -- 17 -- Anderson, Perry 112 -- Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia [AVNOJ] -- 34-7 -- 38 -- 40 -- 41 -- 47 -- anti-semitism -- 27-8 -- 30 -- 79 -- antimony 17 -- arms embargo -- 99-100 -- 110 -- 118 -- Ashdown, Lord Paddy
121-2 -- 164-5 -- Associated Labour Paradigm 60 -- Auschwitz 30 -- Austria -- 11 -- 91 -- 92 -- 113 -- 152-3 -- Austro-Hungarian Empire -- 8 -- 10 -- 11-12 -- Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia 117 -- Autonomous Region of Krajina -- 84 -- 85 -- 90 -- Auty, Phyllis -- 29 -- 34 -- Avramovic, Dragoslav 148 -- Badinter Commission -- 88 -- 100-1 -- 102 -- 110 -- 111 -- Baker, James -- 86 -- 102 -- Balkan Entente 26 -- Balkanization -- 2 -- 8 -- 25 -- 29-30 -- 75 -- 88 -- 153 -- Banking Law [1989] 61 -- Batic, Vladan -- 159 -- 160 -- bauxite 17 -- Belgrade -- 12 -- 29 -- 37 -- 99 -- 142-3
Summary This book provides a revisionist history of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia. Assessing the geo-political and geo-strategic reasons for its creation and dismemberment, it is an important corrective to much contemporary theorising about the destruction of the Yugoslav state. In particular Kate Hudson draws attention to the role of foreign states whose involvement in Yugoslavia did much to destabilise the region, and explains how and why this happened. Tracing the state's origins from 1918 through war and the Tito years, she explains the distortion of the socialist economy resulting from Yugoslavia's unusual position between the two Cold War blocs, and the economic collapse of the 1980s as part of the US's drive for a free market. She also investigates the true causes and effects of the recent wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and brings the book up-to-date with an analysis of Milosevic's downfall, and events in Macedonia and Montenegro.'has the potential to reopen the debate over the collapse of Yugoslavia, thus establishing the title as an original contribution to the ongoing discussion on the Balkans ... a very valuable addition' Vassilis Fouskas, Kingston University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Politieke geschiedenis.
SUBJECT Yugoslavia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149472
Subject Yugoslavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849641456
1849641455
0585489009
9780585489001
0745318819
9780745318813