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Yugoslavia: A State That Withered Away
Dejan Jovic
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Paperback. Argues that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of many factors, not of a single one, but the primary one was commitment of the Yugoslav political elite to the Marxist ideology of "withering away of the state." This book reconstructs the elite's motives and reasons for the actions that led to state collapse. Series: Central European Studies. Num Pages: 489 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 678.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Central European Studies
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557534958
SKU
V9781557534958
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99-15
About Dejan Jovic
Dejan Jovic is Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies at University of Stirling, Scotland. He is also a book review editor for the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans.
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