Title: Balkan babel
Description: "Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, whatever the complications entailed in the national question, the final crisis was triggered by economic deterioration, shaped by the federal system itself, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicans bent on power - either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an "ethnically cleansed" greater Serbia."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Civilization, Ethnic relations, History, Nationalism, Yugoslav War, 1991-1995, 15.70 history of Europe, Auflösung, Desintegratie, Etnische conflicten, Bürgerkrieg, Balkan peninsula, politics and government, Yugoslavia, history, Kosovo (serbia), history, civil war, 1998-1999, Bosnia and hercegovina, history, Serbia, history, Balkan peninsula, history, Yugoslavia, politics and government, Yugoslavia, social life and customs, Nationalism, yugoslavia, Politics and government
Places: Former Yugoslav republics, Yugoslavia
Time periods: 1980-1992, 1992-2003, 20th century