Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away

Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away
ISBN-10
1557534950
ISBN-13
9781557534958
Series
Yugoslavia
Category
History
Pages
419
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Author
Dejan Jović

Description

"This book examines the emergence, implementation, crisis and the breakdown of the fourth (Kardelj's) constitutive concept of Yugoslavia (1974-1990), and relations between anti-statist ideology of self-management and the actual collapse of state institutions. Based on interviews with key members of former Yugoslavia's political elite, documents, and other primary sources, the book reconstructs the elite's motives and reasons for the actions that led to state collapse. Contrary to the dominant explanation of the collapse of Yugoslavia, the book argues that Yugoslavia did not collapse primarily because of the complexity of its ethnic structure, of changes in the international environment, or of a deep economic crisis. Although these factors provided the context in which the elite operated, it was the elite's perception of these problems that decisively influenced their decisions."--BOOK JACKET.

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