Balkan Babel: Politics, Culture, And Religion In Yugoslavia [Hardcover]

Sabrina Petra Ramet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 30, 1992 | ISBN-10: 0813381843 | ISBN-13: 978-0813381848

Arguing that cultural and religious values underpin political behaviour, Sabrina Ramet traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's social and political fabric over the past decade. She explores the unfolding political debates from 1980 to 1986, the gathering crisis triggered by the ascent of Slobodan Milosevic to power in Serbia, and the dramatic collapse of the existing political order beginning in 1989. At this point, she contends, no aspect of Yugoslav life, from the media to gender relations to rock music, has escaped the strife-ridden nationality debate or the country's steady political decay.

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About the Author

Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of six other books, among them Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe(1997) and Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia(1998). She has also edited a dozen books, mostly about Eastern Europe and Russia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 230 pages
• Publisher: Westview Press (March 30, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813381843
• ISBN-13: 978-0813381848
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,579,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)