Serbia's Antibureaucratic Revolution: Milosevic, the Fall of Communism and Nationalist Mobilization

✍ Scribed by Nebojsa Vladisavljevic

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The antibureaucratic revolution was the most crucial episode of Yugoslav conflicts after Tito. Drawing on primary sources and cutting-edge research, this book explains how popular unrest contributed to the fall of communism and the rise of a new form of authoritarianism, competing nationalisms and the break-up of Yugoslavia.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Images of the antibureaucratic revolution......Page 12
The antibureaucratic revolution and the Yugoslav conflicts after Tito......Page 16
The state-centred approach to popular protest......Page 20
Protest politics and political change under authoritarianism......Page 24
The politics of nationalist mobilization......Page 28
Sources......Page 31
The plan of the book......Page 34
1 Yugoslavia's Peculiar Authoritarianism......Page 36
The making of the party-state, multi-national federalism and limited pluralism......Page 37
Shifting elite alignments and state–society relations......Page 42
The radical decentralization of socialist Yugoslavia......Page 46
Dissent and popular protest under the party-state......Page 50
Political instability after Tito......Page 54
Late Yugoslavia's authoritarianism and its unintended consequences......Page 59
2 The Rise of Milošević......Page 62
The change of political generations......Page 64
The ascendancy of Ivan Stambolić and the circular flow of power......Page 70
Divisions in the younger generation......Page 75
Why Milošević won......Page 80
Late Yugoslavia's authoritarianism, the rise of Milošević and Kosovo......Page 85
3 The Grass-Roots Protest of Kosovo Serbs......Page 89
Serb–Albanian antagonisms......Page 90
Building protest at the grass roots......Page 99
Milošević and the spread of mobilization......Page 110
Kosovo Serbs' protests, their protest strategies and patterns of mobilization in socialist Yugoslavia......Page 115
4 Yugoslavia's Political Class and Popular Unrest in the Summer of 1988......Page 120
The ruling class on the streets......Page 121
The Novi Sad demonstration of the Kosovo Serbs......Page 130
Yugoslavia's political class and the early summer mobilization......Page 136
The July and August protest campaign of Kosovo Serbs and their allies......Page 145
The summer mobilization and its consequences......Page 154
5 The Antibureaucratic Revolution and its Enemies......Page 156
Milošević's populism and the wave of mobilization......Page 157
Demonstrations and the collapse of the old political establishment......Page 162
The rally of solidarity......Page 177
Framing the antibureaucratic revolution......Page 181
The complexity of the antibureaucratic revolution......Page 188
The popular protests of Kosovo Albanians......Page 190
The escalation of the Serb–Slovene conflict......Page 200
Constitutional reform, the resurgence of the Kosovo Albanian protests and state repression......Page 203
Road to confrontation......Page 205
Explaining the antibureaucratic revolution and related protest campaigns......Page 206
The fall of communism, Serbian style......Page 213
Protest politics and Yugoslavia's nationalist conflicts......Page 218
Notes......Page 223
Bibliography......Page 232
C......Page 240
H......Page 241
M......Page 242
O......Page 243
S......Page 244
V......Page 245
Z......Page 246