Serbia at war with itself
Subtitle: political choice in Serbia 1990-1994
By: Srbobran Branković ; translated by Mary Thompson-Popović, Myra Poznanović.
Publisher: Sociological Society of Serbia
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Belgrade
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Serbia -- Politics and government -- 1992-; Yugoslavia -- Politics and government -- 1992-
First sentence: The three-year period which this books tries to explain - mainly in the language of numbers - was probably the most difficult and the least glorious in the history of the Yugoslav nations.
Description: PREFACE											3
INTRODUCTION										4
CHAPTER 1
1. PARTIAL MODERNIZATION:  ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER WORLD WAR II										8
	1. Economic and social development						8
	2.  Social status and class awareness							12
	3.  Some changes in social structure and the status of the main classes in the transition period.										19
2. POLITICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION: THEIR INFLUENCE ON INDIVIDUAL POLITICAL CHOICE										22
1.  Homogeneity in the face of external danger: a salient feature of political culture	22
2. Reviving old myths									24
3.   Political tradition:  other aspects								25
3. INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS AND POLITICAL PREFERENCE			30
1.	The Trauma of the Past								30
2.	The role of the nationalist elite							31
3.	Nationality and political party membership					35
CHAPTER 2
1. FORWARDS TO THE PAST: POLITICAL CHOICE					37
2. SOCIAL DETERMINATION? THE POLITICAL AFFILIATION OF CERTAIN SOCIAL GROUPS											64
3. MEDIA AND POLITICS:  REALITY AS PHOTO NEGATIVE				87
4. DETERMINISM OR MANIPULATION?							103
CHAPTER 3
CONCLUSION: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PHENOMENON OF SUPPORT TO A FAILED LEADERSHIP											105
1.  Macro-social aspect: the effect of change on social structure 				105
2.  Strategies for ensuring consent: systematically obscuring the relationships between protagonists in the political field								108
3.  The micro-social aspect: creating a no-option situation					113

APPENDIX 1
CHRONOLOGY OF THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS						123
APPENDIX 2: WHO'S WHO IN SERBIAN POLITICS: PARTIES				162
APPENDIX 2: WHO'S WHO IN SERBIAN POLITICS: PERSONALITIES		166
APPENDIX 3:  RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF SERBIA	173
APPENDIX 3:  RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA											175
APPENDIX 4:  SERBIA: STATISTICS
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