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This project documents the rich source material in European and North American repositories relating to the history of countries formerly under colonial rule. The manuscript and document holdings of public and private archives, libraries, museums and other institutions referred to in the guide cover all aspects of history. The primary emphasis is on political, diplomatic, commercial and military history, but there is good coverage of cultural history - especially in the reports and correspondence of explorers and travellers in missionary archives. Each series, of which this is the third, is arranged by country; sources within national volumes are described by repositories and archival groups. ... Read more

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Title: El juicio de la Historia.(Slobodan Milosevic, expresidente de Yugoslavia)(TT: History's biggest lawsuit.)(TA: Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Yugoslavia)(Artículo Breve)
Author: José María Vera
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 22, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 45

Article Type: Artículo Breve

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There are few countries in Europe which contain within an area as small as the British Isles such a variety of natural environments and cultures as Yugoslavia. This book provides a survey of the history of the South Slav peoples who came together at the end of the First World War to form the first Yugoslav kingdom, and who emerged from the chaos of the Second World War to become citizens of a socialist federal republic, led by the Communist Party under the leadership of Marshal Tito. Beginning in Roman times, the book traces the rise and fall of the medieval Slav principalities, the dominance of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, the proclamation of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, the disastrous effects of the German occupation and the creation of a new socialist order under President Tito. ... Read more

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A must if you want to understand Yugoslavia
This is the sixth book I've read about Yugoslavia since we bombed Belgrade this spring.It should have been the first.Like most Americans, I had virtually no knowledge about this important part of the world.What I readin the media only confused me.This author gives a concise overview ofYugoslav history up through the 80's, and he presents his information in aninteresting & lucid way.(It is interesting to read his views onKosovo, in light of recent events which took place ten years after thisbook was published.)If I had read this book first, the information in theother books I've read would have been much more useful to me. ... Read more

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Written by leading east European scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of fifty years of economic thinking udner communist rule in Europe and during the first phase of post-communist economic transformation. ... Read more

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Great book
I was lucky enough to take a class with Professor Sell. Naturally, we used many other sources and were encouraged to seek out even more. As part of the history of the area and era I found this book very useful and especially interesting given Professor Sell's first-hand accounts. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone studying the Balkans. I hope he writes another book about his work in Kosovo or, if we're lucky, an account of all his years in the region.

Well written, poorly sourced, and self-serving
This book is worth checking out from the library, but I wouldn't buy it.

The book is well written and easy to read. I have to give Mr. Sell credit. He is a very talented writer, which is why I gave the book two stars rather than one.

Unfortunately, the book is poorly documented (there are a conspicuous lack of end notes for this sort of a book) and the author frequently writes as though he had privlaged access to Slobodan Milosevic's thoughts and feelings. Mr. Sell may have been an "insider" with the State Dept., but I don't think he was clairvoyant.

It is important to keep the author's position in mind when reading this book. He was a U.S. foreign Service officer serving in Yugoslavia. He was there to advance U.S. Government policy in the region. The real point of the book seems to be to justify the policies of the United States with regard to Yugoslavia.

This book may be valuable as an insight into the thinking that prevailed within the State Department, but it is not an impartial or even accurate assessment of the events that led to the destruction of Yugoslavia.

The land of Demons
Louis Sell describes this place like he was born there.I can just imagine how beautiful this country was before the Balkan wars.How can such a peacefull Country turn to The Land of Demons.After Titos death Yugoslavia slowly began to fall apart.It used to be one country before Titos death, but after his death and after Milosevic there was six.

My comment from old Europe
Although the facts and the personality of Milosevic are properly described, the book is, in my opinion, too partial. I don't think it is lack of knowledge but the will to believe it that way.
This eternal dichotomy of "good boys and bad boys" that in America is so much extended, appears very strongly in this book, specially when the role of the USA is concerned.Too simple,I must say.
Let's say that it is a good book to be red in America...

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A great deal of attention from international journalists, negotiators, and politicians has been directed toward the region comprising the former Yugoslavia. The civil strife that followed the fragmentation of Yugoslavia was a vivid reminder of exactly how unstable and violent the "new world order" could become. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia remains the largest and most populous successor state to Socialist Yugoslavia. This fact alone makes the "new" Yugoslavia an important player in Balkan relations. Therefore, this volume on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is key to understanding the future of this region, and Europe as a whole. Rather than an exclusive history of the current Yugoslav state, it is a broad-based reference book of the cultural factors and events, people and institutions, that lent shape to Serbian and Yugoslav culture, and hence the origins of the current situation that too often may be found on the nightly news. Suster has weighed the views not just of historians, but also of political scientists, art historians, economists, artists, and other specialists, providing the reader with a full and complete sense of Serbian culture. An extensive chronology is included to provide a broad introduction. The Statistical Annex, a wonderfully helpful reference feature, places essential figures and data in one location. Additionally, a number of maps and tables illustrate the geography and provide a visual perspective of various entries, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in general. Also included are usage notes of on the Cyrillic alphabet and latinization of Serbian words, as well as lists of abbreviations and acronyms. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography subdivided by topic. ... Read more

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A Useful Guide to Yugoslav History
An excellent addition to the literature on Yugoslav and Serbian history.A must for anyone who would like to learn more about the region.Concise and easy to read.The entries on events and important individulas and institutions have not been burdened by the subjective interpretations and judgements.Highly recommended reading for general public and Yugoslav scholars.

A standard for scholars, students, and foreign policy makers
Finally, we have a comprehensive and coherent masterwork on Yugoslavia from a Balkan expert and an IPE scholar. The post-Cold War literature on international relations of Yugoslavia's demise, in its substance andmethod, for the most part, has not discriminated between truth and opinion.It has not discriminated between what is true objectively and rationally,supported by evidence and illuminated by reason, and what is only asubjective judgment, separated from the facts, unrealistic, and informed byprejudice.

Information and knowledge about the Balkans, Yugoslavia, andSerbia,have often been created and disseminated through uncorroboratedreports and teleological research prone to errors: accepting a (policy)claim when it was false, rejecting it when it was true, or solving thewrong problem instead of the right one. Serious readers, scholars, andpolicy makers engaged in the Balkan affairs and U.S. foreign policy,therefore, should pose several questions:

(1) has the so-called"advocacy journalism" based on the reports from conflictstakeholders -- past, current, or prospective clients and proxies providedinformation or disinformation?

(2) has the "advocacyjournalism" cultivated (a) ignorance and cognitive closure aboutcausal links and their effects; (b) stirred input/output discrepancies thatled to cognitive dissonance and suppression of reasoned judgment; or has itenhanced our understanding of causes and consequences of internal conflictsand interstate wars?

(3) have we improved our learning skills, andadvanced our knowledge with briefings, statements, and judgments providedby bureaucrats, staff members, and policy makers in a ministry oragency?

Answers to these questions suggest that research and managementof international affairs, so far, have been adverse for the study ofhistory and policy. We have discovered fallacies and errors in theintelligence process and planning ex postfacto. We have had to contend withpolicy advocacy and policy application that stem from these fallacies anderrors. Serious and much needed research to discourage the use of fallaciesand to avoid costly conceptual and policy errors,so far, has beeninsufficient and inadequate.

Suster's "Historical Dictionary of theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia" in the English-speaking world has longbeen overdue. Since the end of the Cold War, the public was satiated withthe literature on ethnic and regional conflict. This literature, with fewexceptions, lacked the precision and depth required for serious socialresearch. Academic and policy discourse has been in need of a discriminateand balanced evidence and inference. We make history and theory synthesispossible through this intellectual production of discriminate and balancedevidence and inference.

Zeljan Suster's book fills the large factual andanalytical gap that exists in the contemporary literature on Yugoslavia.Besides the comprehensive lexicon of the names, events, and processes, thebook's introductory chapter provides a concise but inclusive analyticalbackground for the main period covered in the book. This analysis isrefreshing and stimulating. It makes prospects for serious research on thisand similar topics important and feasible. The "Historical Dictionaryof the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" is a standard reference forscholars, students, and policy makers.

S. B. M. Pesic, University ofPittsburgh

A standard reference for scholars and policy makers
Finally, a comprehensive and coherent volume on Yugoslavia from a Balkan expert and an IPE scholar. The post-Cold War literature on international relations of Yugoslavia's demise, in its substance and method, for the mostpart, has not discriminated between truth and opinion -- between what istrue objectively and rationally, supported by evidence and illuminated byreason, and what is only a subjective judgment, separated from the facts,unrealistic, and informed by prejudice.

Regrettably, information andknowledge about Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans have often been createdand distributed by media generated and / or by media forwarded pictures,reports, and commentaries. This type of evidence has largely been based onleaks from known and unknown sources. Therefore serious readers, scholars,and policy makers engaged in the Balkan affairs and U.S. foreign policyshould pose several questions.

(1) Has the so-called "advocacyjournalism" based on the reports from conflict stakeholders -- past,current, or prospective clients and proxies -- provided information ordisinformation?

(2) Has the advocacy journalism cultivated (a) ignoranceand cognitive closure about causal links and their effects; (b) stirredinput-output discrepancies that led to cognitive dissonance and suppressionof reasoned judgment; or (c) has it enhanced our understanding of causesand consequences of internal conflicts and interstate wars?

(3) Have weimproved our learning skills, and advanced our knowledge with briefings,statements, and judgments provided by bureaucrats, staff members, andpolicy makers in a ministry or agency?

Answers to these questions and theoutcome of such a research and management of international affairs havebeen adverse for history, theory, and policy. We have discovered ex anteand the ex postfacto fallacies and errors in the intelligence process, andplanning. We have had to contend with policy advocacy and implementationthat stem from these fallacies and errors. Serious and much needed researchto discourage the use of fallacies and to avoid costly conceptual andpolicy errors, so far has been insufficient and inadequate.

Suster'sHistorical Dictionary of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in theEnglish-speaking world has long been overdue. Since the end of the ColdWar, the public was satiated with the literature on ethnic and regionalconflict. This literature, with few exceptions, lacked the precision anddepth required for serious social research. Academic and policy discoursehas been in need of a discriminate and balancedevidence and inference. Wemake history and theory synthesis possible through this intellectualproduction of discriminate and balancedevidence and inference.

ZeljanSuster's book fills the large factual and analytical gap that exists in thecontemporary literature on Yugoslavia. Besides the comprehensive lexicon ofthe names, events, and processes, the book's introductory chapter providesa concise but inclusive analytical background for the main period coveredin the book. This analysis is refreshing and stimulating. It makesprospects for serious research on this and similar topics important andfeasible. The Historical Dictionary of the Federal Republic of Yugoslaviashould be a standard reference for scholars, students, and policy makers.

Boban S. M. Pesic, University of Pittsburgh

A valuable book on a complex topic
This book, which is both detailed and accessible, is a valuable contribution to the recent body of literature on the former Yugoslavia. As a who's who and a what's what on the region's historical and contemporaryfigures and events it is an excellent starting point for the student,researcher and even the casual reader who will certainly have been exposedto a lot of media coverage of the region, but who may have found that themedia explained only a little.

The alphabetic listing format is easy touse, and the extensive bibliography and chronology provide reference pointsfor the reader to find out more on the many interesting aspects of thehistory and culture of the Balkans.

first-class documentation and analysis on difficultsubject
Prof. Suster's book is a well documented and highly sophisticated work on history combining first-hand information, clear presentation and reliable analysis on many until now partially or wrongly interpreted historicalphenomenons from troublesome Balkan history. Comprehensive in its analysis,the book is based on new historical literture and balanced in itshistorical judgments. Both biographies and historical analysis are based onscholarly literature from West and from local historiography. The emphesisis, as expected on contemporary history, covering all important facts ofthe last decade, but the most important historical phenomenons are, somefor the first time in English,presented without any prejudice. In allrespects this book will be an essential guide for everyone, from universityprofessors and students to general public, tending to learn more on historyand politics inSerbia, Montenegro and their neighbors. ... Read more

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The Balkan Wars of the 1990s ripped the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia apart and resulted in war crimes and atrocities not seen in Europe since World War II. But these wars entailed more than territorial disputes - they were the result of arbitrary social, cultural, and ethnic borders that have developed over centuries. This lucid book will help students understand how the location and accessibility of the lands of the South Slavs determined Yugoslavia's volatile history as a battleground of peoples, empires, and cultures. Historically, Yugoslav lands have been located in the "fracture zone" between East and West, Christianity and Islam, and have always been a focus of international rivalries. In the 20th century, two Yugoslavias were created and destroyed: the first from 1918 to 1941; the second from 1945 to 1991. Both Yugoslavias struggled with externally imposed borders, striving to achieve a viability that eluded them in the end. Readers will find "The Breakup of Yugoslavia: Conflict in the Balkans" an instructive example, and cautionary tale, of the centrality of arbitrary borders in the development of societies and nations in world history. ... Read more

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An interesting set of studies on external perceptions of Yugoslavia during World War II by diverse observers including those by General de Gaulle and The Duke of Spoleto. ... Read more

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Further Yugoslavia Question
Norman Naimark, famous author of Fires of hatred (trad. also in Italy), with other expert scholars (Vucinich, Emmert, Fine, etc)fill with that book a historiographic vacuum about a complex and unexplored question. A little bit space should devote to medieval origins of the conflicts.
In last analysis a beatyfull book. ... Read more

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Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia sheds light upon women’s wartime experiences and makes sense of their coping strategies in the face of the innumerable atrocities committed against them. This is the only book to present the experiences of therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals along with attorneys and Justices of the International Criminal Tribunal in working from both psychological and legal perspectives with women in former Yugoslavia. The workers who relate their experiences come from both former Yugoslavia and other nations, representing countries such as Norway, Germany, Holland, Costa Rica and the United States.

Focusing on this region offers you a look at applied feminist practice in a cultural context outside the United States or Northern European. Assault on the Soul contains an integration of feminist theories and practice in psychology, women’s history, women’s geography, and women’s jurisprudence. This collection of articles is intended as a historical document, as assurance that both the plight of women and the role of women in bringing it to the attention of the international community and the justice system will not be erased. Assault on the Soul will help you serve your patients’needs by focusing on such issues as:

• feminist psychology and global issues concerning crimes against women
• interviews with judges for the International Criminal Tribunal
• Belgrade feminists’experiences working with female survivors of war
• supporting women’s projects in the former Yugoslavia
• traumatized women and the impact of a women-centered training program in Bosnia
• psychosocial services among refugee women during the war
• the victims and perpetrators of Serbia
• reports of rapes, killings, burning villages, and other serious war crimes
  
  Assault on the Soul gives you first-hand accounts of war trauma to women. Deeply moving and well written, the articles in this book are written in a combination of legal and psychological approaches to help you teach clients to heal from severe, acute, and chronic trauma.
  
  

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Feminist therapy concepts for war-torn survivors.
Feminist therapy concepts blend with surveys of women in war-torn areas to provide an intriguing focus which applies feminist practice outside the US. This important survey includes interviews with judges, Belgrade feministexperiences working with female survivors of war, women's projects in theformer Yugoslavia, and a host of related topics. Difficult to easilycategorize, this will appeal across genres. ... Read more

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Good explanation
Out of the now almost countless array of books published over the last decade and meant to `explain' what happened in Yugoslavia, John Allcock's "Explaining Yugoslavia" is among the best. In fact, readers need go no farther if they're looking for a one-volume analysis of the former Yugoslavia and some of the underlying reasons for the country's violent and bloody collapse. Allcock, a sociologist, analyzes historical, cultural, political, social/societal, economic and other factors and skillfully ties them together to provide a comprehensive picture of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia and reasonable answers to the question of why their common state fell apart. Allcock essentially sees the root cause for the failure of Yugoslavia in the country's economy, but this is hardly economic reductionism - he stresses the importance of the interplay of numerous other factors. If this book is not the definitive `explanation of Yugoslavia' (something that will likely never be achieved), it is a large and important step in that direction.

Balkan backstairs intrigues made comprehensible
Allcock traces the present of the "former Yugoslavia" back to its distant roots - and does a great job. Organised around issues (eg. "economic modernisation", "the movement of population", "violence"), his genre of historical sociology offers remarkable insights.

Oxford historian Richard Crampton praised this book as "making many Balkan backstairs intrigues, including those of the last few years, more comprehensible" (New York Review of Books, January 11, 2001, p.18). Rightly so. ... Read more

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This book looks at the successes and failures of mediation efforts in the former Yugoslavia. It examines the activities of the mediating entities-states and international organizations-from the perspective of mediation theory and within the context of the mediating entities' broad international and political goals. The book calls attention to two lessons: that collective mediation faces much greater obstacles than mediation by individual states, and that a mediator's priority should be saving lives, rather than aiming at other objectives, or even pursuing justice. ... Read more

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This work presents a new aspect of the emergence of the Eastern Question - the displacement of the Ottoman Empire from Southeastern Europe - seen from the perspective of the small, but strategically important city-state of Dubrovnik, placed precariously between the Habsburg and Turkish empires. "Between the Double Eagle and the Crescent" offers an excellent example of the ability of small states in the Balkans to engage and use larger empires to preserve their independence and freedom to manoeuvre, which set a precedent for the patron-client relationships between the great powers of Europe and the Balkan states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... Read more

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Excellent
An excellent review of the political manuevering that the Republic of Dubrovnik had to do to maintain it's autonomy from the clutches of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. A great book for people interested in the history of this beautiful former city state located in today's Croatia. ... Read more

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In this study Dr Zukin combines the approaches of a political scientist and a sociologist to examine the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management. Going beyond previous work on socialist societies, she asks how Yugoslavs - as workers, as citizens and as a society - have benefited from the form of socialism that they have pioneered. She also considers the relevance of the official ideology of self-management, institutions like workers' councils and communes, and political and economic controls to post-industrial as well as industrializing societies. The book includes long passages from intensive, in-depth interviews with members of ten Belgrade families. The families, which are described in terms of their place in the Yugoslav social structure, indicate their political and socialist ideology through telling their life stories, interpreting their own place in social changes, and reacting to these changes and pressures. Participant-observation of local voters meetings provides an examination of give-and-take in Yugoslav grass-roots politics. ... Read more

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Before the former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, its inhabitants successfully lived side by side in peace. This collection seeks to explain how former neighbors became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to coexist in peace again.Contributors analyze political cartoons, psychiatry, the arts, visual media, and law to present a diversity of views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia. While the chapters in this book deal with regional developments, they are not so much focused on politics as they are concerned with how values and attitudes are altered and new identities formed. Thus, this volume goes beyond recent journalistic accounts and should remain relevant for years to come.This book began as a special issue of the journal Anthropology of East Europe Review. Most of the contributors to that issue have revised their chapters for this collection, and new chapters have been added, including one on the recent war in Kosovo. Essays range across all of former Yugoslavia, emphasizing the variability and diversity of ethnic relations throughout its history.Contributors are Mart Bax, Brian C. Bennett, Nikolai Botev, Bette Denich, Elinor Despalatovic, Hannes Grandits, Joel M. Halpern, E. A. Hammel, Robert M. Hayden, Goran Jovanovic, Eva V. Huseby-Darvas, David A. Kideckel, Mirjana Lausevic, Lynn D. Maners, Julie Mertus, Robert Gary Minnich, Rajko Mursic, Edit Petrovic, Christian Promitzer, Mirjana Prosic-Dvornic, Janet Reineck, Jonathan Matthew Schwartz, Andrei Simic, and Stevan M. Weine. ... Read more