The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives

by Eric Gordy

Book Overview

How does the regime of Slobodan Milosevic and his Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) remain in power? Since legitimizing its power in 1990, the SPS has never received a majority of votes in an election. Furthermore, it has been defeated in three military conflicts, produced more than 500,000 refugees, presided over the most extreme hyperinflation in modern times, and failed in its original defining promise to see "all Serbs in one state." In The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019581
• ISBN13: 9780271019581
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"