Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable?
Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism?
How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do
we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of
Europe in the twentieth century? The Complete History of Yugoslavia
by Marie-Janine Calic provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive
synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of
Yugoslavia-from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the
bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the
1990s. In this book, Calic takes a fresh and innovative look at the
colorful, multifaceted, and complex history of Yugoslavia,
emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes from
the turn of the twentieth century and the transition to modern
industrialized mass society. She traces the origins of ethnic,
religious, and cultural divisions, applying the latest social
science approaches, and drawing on the breadth of recent
state-of-the-art literature, to present a balanced interpretation
of events that takes into account the differing perceptions and
interests of the actors involved. Uniquely, Calic frames the
history of Yugoslavia for readers as an essentially open-ended
process, undertaken from a variety of different regional
perspectives with varied composite agenda; thus, she shuns
traditional, deterministic explanations that notorious Balkan
hatreds or any other kind of exceptionalism are to blame for
Yugoslavia's demise, and along the way she highlights the agency of
twentieth-century modern mass society in the politicization of
differences. Additionally, while analyzing nuanced political and
social-economic processes, Calic describes the experiences and
emotions of ordinary people in a vivid way. As a result, her
groundbreaking work provides scholars and learned readers alike
with an accessible, trenchant, and authoritative introduction to
Yugoslavia's complex history.
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