Protest in Belgrade: Winter of Discontent [Paperback]

Mladen Lazic (Editor), Liljana Nikolic (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 9639116459 | ISBN-13: 978-9639116450 | Publication Date: July 1999

This text addresses one of the most important social movements of the 1990s - the civil and student peace demonstrations in Belgrade during the winter of 1996/97. The demonstrations, the largest ever in history, were in response to Milosevic's nullifying of the results of local elections in fourteen towns in Serbia and created global media attention and worldwide sympathy. This comprehensive study, on a society asking for democracy, is based on interviews with over 1000 civilians and students. It analyses the basic empirical findings of the research and examines specific sociological aspects such as class/intellectual composition, political/social values and rationales. A chronology of events is also included. The text comprises of ten chapters dealing with the various aspects of civil and student protests, the research being carried out and completed while the demonstrations were still in progress and before the outcome of events was known. The text provides valuable information for the analysts of post-socialist transformation as well as researchers of social movements and social change, and for all those concerned with the events in Southeast Europe.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Serbo-Croation --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Central European Univ Pr (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9639116459
• ISBN-13: 978-9639116450
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Protest in Belgrade: Winter of Discontent (Paperback)

This book is an English translation of "Ajmo, ajde, svi u setnju," which was released before six months had passed from the end of the 1996-1997 demonstrations. A group of the most distinguished social scientists in Belgrade, together with their students, researched the student and political protests of the winter as they were happening, providing in short order a work that is both a rigorous analysis and a contemporaneous document of the protests. It is essential material for anybody who wants to understand who were the participants in the longest continuous political protest, and what they believed.