The antibureaucratic revolution was the most crucial episode of Yugoslav conflicts after Tito. Drawing on primary sources and cutting-edge research, this book explains how popular unrest contributed to the fall of communism and the rise of a new form of authoritarianism, competing nationalisms and the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Autorentext
NEBOJA VLADISAVLJEVI? is LSE Fellow in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He teaches comparative politics and the regulation of ethnonational conflict in the Graduate School.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Significance of the Antibureaucratic Revolution Yugoslavia's Peculiar Authoritarianism The Rise of Milosevi? The Grass Roots Protest of Kosovo Serbs Yugoslavia's Political Class and Popular Unrest in the Summer of 1988 The Antibureaucratic Revolution and Its Enemies The Popular Protests of Kosovo Albanians and the Serb-Slovene Conflict Conclusion: Protest Politics, the Fall of Communism and Nationalist Conflict