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Instant History: Understanding the Wars of Yugoslav Succession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Gale Stokes
Affiliation:
Department of History, Rice University
John Lampe
Affiliation:
East European program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and professor in the Department of History, University of Maryland
Dennison Rusinow
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Julie Mostov
Affiliation:
Department of History and Politics, Drexel University

Abstract

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Type
Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1996

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1. Mark Thompson's A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia (New York: Pantheon, 1992), is particularly good on the western parts of the former Yugoslavia. His account of Istria is unique. Glenny's, Misha The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War (London: Penguin, 1992 Google Scholar, is episodic and sometimes hastily written, but provides a dramatic yet detached account. Glenny published an updated second edition in 1995.

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3. In this article, the term “Bosnia” should be understood to mean “Bosnia and Herzegovina,” the official name of that country.

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22. This is Magas˘ view as well (321).

23. Full citation in fn. 9.

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38. Banac, “Misreading the Balkans,” 36.

39. Drakulić, How We Survived, 124 and 31.

40. Quotations from, in order, Balkan Express, 50; How We Survived, 143; and Balkan Express, 58, 50–51, 145.

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