Yugoslavia : a state that withered away / Dejan Jović.

Author
Jović, Dejan [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2009.
Description
xii, 419 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Central European studies [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "The disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of many factors, not of a single one, but the primary one, the author argues, was commitment of the Yugoslav political elite to the Marxist ideology of withering away of the state. Ideology had a central place in Yugoslav politics. The trend of decentralization of Yugoslavia was not primarily motivated by reasons of ethnic politics, but by Marxist beliefs that the state should be decentralized and weakened until it was finally replaced by a self-managing society, especially the case during the extended period of the last 15 years before the actual breakdown of the Yugoslav socialist federation. Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away examines the emergence, implementation, crisis, and the breakdown of the fourth (Kardeljs) constitutive concept of Yugoslavia (19741990), and relations between anti-statist ideology of self-management and the actual collapse of state institutions"--Publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-408) and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Analytical approaches to studying the disintegration of Yugoslavia
    • The Kardelj concept : constructing the fourth Yugoslavia (1974-1990)
    • The constitutional debate 1967-1974 : why did Serbia accept the Kardelj concept and the 1974 constitution?
    • The economic crisis : the (lack of) response of the Yugoslav political elite to economic crisis in the early 1980s
    • The political system reexamined : the Serbian question and the rise of the defenders and reformers of the Constitution (1974-1984)
    • The emergence of alternative concepts and the reaction of the political elite in Serbia (1984-1988)
    • Slovenia and Serbia : the final years of Yugoslavia (1988-1990).
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    Project Muse UPCC books
    ISBN
    • 9781557534958
    • 1557534950
    LCCN
    ^^2008013563
    OCLC
    225531506
    RCP
    H - S
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