num_pages: 444
description: Struggling against high odds, Yugoslavia managed to survive from its 1918 inception until the early '90s. But now, tragic ethnic &amp; regional conflicts have irrevocably fragmented the country. Lenard Cohen explores the original conception &amp; motives underlying the Yugoslav idea, looking at the state's major problems, achievements &amp; failures during its short troubled history. He answers a broad range of questions concerning contemporary Yugoslavia: How did the state plunge from its position as a positive model to an essentially negative case of socialist reform? What measures for recovery were proposed by the country's ethnically &amp; regionally segmented one-party elite? What were the reasons for the eventual abandonment of reform socialism, the elimination of the single party's monopoly &amp; the rapid delegitimation of the country's federal political institutions? What programs have been offered by the noncommunist &amp; born again communist leaders elected to power during the revival of multiparty pluralism in '90? How did their efforts to achieve regional &amp; ethnic sovereignty place the country in such a precarious &amp; ultimately fatal position? Concluding chapters offer an analysis of the causes &amp; horrifying consequences of the military conflict &amp; civil war from 1991 to 1994, including a discussion of the impotent efforts at peacekeeping, the dynamics of the complex &amp; savage struggle in Bosnia-Hercegovina, &amp; an examination of the problems faced by Yugoslavia's successor states.
language: English
title: Broken Bonds
titlecomplete: Broken Bonds
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Westview Press (Boulder, CO)