Balkan Babel: The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic; Author: Ramet, Sabrina P.; Paperback

Author: Ramet, Sabrina P.
Edition #4; Paperback
448 pages
Published: March 2002
The Perseus Books Group
ISBN: 0813339057

The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and thorough revisions. Ramet traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's 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 power -- either 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 Yugoslavia's demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.The disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the war for Kosovo. Fourth edition. 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.