Europe from the Balkans to the Urals: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union

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SIPRI, 1996 - 436 pages
The disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1991 shed entirely new light on the character of their political systems. There is now a need to re-examine many of the standard interpretations of Soviet and Yugoslav politics. This book is a comparative study of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union - as multinational, federal communist states - and the reaction of European and US foreign policy to the parallel collapses of these nations. The authors describe the structural similarities in the destabilization of the two countries, providing great insight into the demise of both.
 

Contents

Structural comparabilities between the USSR and Yugoslavia
6
The disintegration of the communist federations of EastCentral
12
Glasnost and the reemergence of nationalist tensions in
20
disintegration through
29
early
39
Constants in the Yugoslav polity 191854
59
43
67
57
73
1 Maps showing ethnic divisions in the former Yugoslavia
199
The international setting of Soviet and Yugoslav disintegration
221
a case study of postcold war
242
European reactions to the breakup of Yugoslavia
251
The role of the United Nations in the former Yugoslavia
284
from differentiation to
303
Russian foreign policy and the wars in the former Yugoslavia
327
Russia and its neighbours in the CIS and East
350

Communist reform and ethnofederal stability 79 22883
79
Restoration and degeneration of the ethnofederal partystate
96
Gorbachev and the disintegration of the USSR
119
The disintegration of the Yugoslav state 198791
144
The wars of Yugoslav succession 199195
174
Conclusions
381
Bibliography
403
Index
420
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