Breaking the South Slav dream : the rise and fall of Yugoslavia / Kate Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Kate, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yugoslavia--History.

Yugoslavia.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 192 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.

Summary:

This book provides a revisionist history of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia -- and the geo-political and geo-strategic reasons for its creation and dismemberment. It is an important corrective to much contemporary theorizing about the destruction of the former Yugoslav republic, so often attributed to some ethnicity peculiar to the bbackwardb peoples of the Balkans. Kate Hudson draws attention to those other external interests whose involvement in FRY did so much to distort and destabilize the region - and explains how and why the dream was shattered in the process. It is an important corrective and a timely account of a region that will continue to occupy centre stage for some time to come.

Contents:

1 The 'first' Yugoslavia: origins and problems 8

Yugoslavism and the origins of the state 9

The war and its outcome 12

Economic challenges in nation-building 15

Political challenges in nation-building 18

Peasants and communists 20

Absolute rule 23

2 The Second World War 26

The eve of war 27

Division and occupation 29

Resistance 31

The cost of the war 37

3 The Tito years 39

Establishing the new state 40

The split with the Soviet Union 42

Self-management 45

Non-alignment 48

Nations and constitutions 50

Reasserting communist authority 54

4 Economic assault: the 1980s and the US drive for a free market 56

Economic instability 58

Political instability 62

The question of Kosovo 64

Milosevic 68

5 Crisis response 73

Political change in Slovenia 75

Multi-party elections 78

Breakdown 82

Slovenian secession 86

6 War: the first wave

Croatia 89

International interests 91

Conflict with the JNA 92

Negotiation and recognition 98

7 War: the second wave

Bosnia 103

The question of Islam 105

The build-up to war 109

The war begins 112

The final stages 119

The Dayton Accords 120

8 War: the third wave

Kosovo 123

The KLA and the move towards war 124

Rambouillet and the legality of the attack 127

The NATO bombardment 131

Kosovo after the war 135

9 Bringing down Milosevic and what came after 138

Politics in Serbia 139

The presidential election of 2000 144

Macedonia and Montenegro 149

10 Victors' justice? The trial of Slobodan Milosevic 152

The charges 154

The trial 162

Racak 167

Rambouillet 169

An 'insider' witness 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.

ISBN:

0745318827

0745318819

OCLC:

51810901