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Saviours of the Nation’

Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID23399706
AuthorsJasna Dragović-Soso (0000-0001-9644-368X), Jasna Dragovlć-Soso (corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages300
Publication date2002-10-09
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSaviours of the Nation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780773570924
OpenAlexW4380269771
Open LibraryOL33394714M
ISBN9780773570924
LanguageDE
Citations received61

Yugoslavia's break-up in 1991 and the wars that followed in its wake have been widely blamed on Serbian nationalism. Most analyses, however, have not examined this nationalism in the years before Slobodan Miloševi 's rise to power, when its principal articulators were opposition intellectuals. Saviours of the Nation is the first book to trace the trajectory of Serbia's dissidence from its origins in the 1950s to its consolidation in the early 1980s around the defence of civil and human rights.

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Citation span2004 - 2026 (23)
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