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Serbia and Montenegro became full-fledged, independent states in the modern age in 1878. On 1 December 1918 both states joined in the making of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, to be renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. They thus relinquished their statehood for the sake of forming a broader country (encompassing other Southern Slav peoples — narodi) which would also comprise the Serbs who had lived until then under Austro-Hungarian rule. Since 1918, therefore, the great majority of the Serbian people have lived in one country, along with other ethnic nations.
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There have been two books published on Milosevic which give particularly interesting insights. The first is by the renowned opposition politician and professor of law, Kosta Cavoski, Slobodan protiv slobode (Slobodan Against Freedom) (Belgrade: AIZ Dosije, 1991).
It is a political-theoretical analysis whose aim it is to show that the ‘political myth of S. Milosevic is the birth of a false dawn ... where freedom is endangered’. The second is by a prominent Belgrade journalist Slavoljub Djukic, Kako se dogodio vodja — borbe za vlast u Srbiji posle Josipa Broza (How the Leader Appeared — Power Struggles in Serbia After Josip Broz Tito) (Belgrade: Filip Visnjic, 1992). It gives a detailed biographical account of Milosevic’s career and publishes interviews with people who knew him closely. A revised edition of this book has recently appeared under a new title: Izmedju slave i anateme: politicka biografija Slobodana Milosevica (1994). See Misha Glenny, ‘Yugoslavia: the great fall’, in New York Review of Books, 23 March 1995.
Milosevic himself published a book of his speeches, Godine raspleta (The Years of the Disentanglement) (Belgrade: BIGZ, 1988).
See also A. Djilas ‘A profile of Slobodan Milosevic’, in Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, no. 3 (1993), pp. 81–96.
A. Djilas (ed.), Srpsko pitanje (Belgrade: Politika, 1991). A comprehensive overview of varying political and intellectual positions on the ‘Serbian question’ in the wake of the end of former Yugoslavia.
See the interesting ‘Balkan debate’ between M. van Heuven, ‘Rehabilitating Serbia’, and H. Carter, ‘Punishing Serbia’, in Foreign Policy, no. 96 (Fall 1994), pp. 38–56.
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Vejvoda, I. (1996). Serbian Perspectives. In: Danchev, A., Halverson, T. (eds) International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24541-3_6
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