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Author : Nick Miller
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789639776135

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Nick Miller argues in this provocative study that to comprehend Yugoslavia's collapse, we must examine the development and nature of Serbian nationalism, and the typical approaches will not suffice. Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, Miller suggests, was not the product of an ancient, immutable, and aggressive Serbian national identity; nor was it an artificial creation of powerful political actors looking to capitalize on its mobilizing power. In examining the work of three influential Serbian intellectuals, Miller argues that cultural processes are too often ignored in favor of political ones; that Serbian intellectuals did work within a historical context, but that they were not slaves to the past; that Serbian history is not a continuous reiteration of static themes. His subjects are Dobrica Cosic (a novelist), Mica Popovic (a painter) and Borislav Mihajlovic Mihiz (a literary critic). These three men were part of a circle of friends who began the postwar with (mostly!) open minds about the promise of the new communist order and who wound up by 1974 as inveterate opponents of the regime and nationalists. Together, the work of these men indicates that nationalism was more than a tool for cynical and needy politicians, and less an ancient bequest than an unsurprising response to real conditions in Tito's Yugoslavia. Book jacket.

Author : Gorana Ognjenović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137597437

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This book, the first of two volumes, challenges decades of superficial and selective rhetoric about Tito’s Yugoslavia. The essays explore some of the gaps in the existing descriptions of the country that have existed for decades. Contributors cover a range of topics including the abolition of the multi-party system, nonalignment, and the 1968 reinforcing position among others.

Author : Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351591207

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This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues – explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost – The Public.

Author : Andrey Makarychev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135006946

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The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral part of Europe. The latter is, at least, wished by many Russian citizens.

Author : Robert J. Donia
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472115570

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Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history