Has anyone read Ed Herman & David Peterson's little book THE DISMANTLING OF YUGOSLAVIA (the October 2007 issue of MONTHLY REVIEW)? Though I haven't read the whole thing, it seems very accurate.
(The main gap is that they don't explain Serbia's interest in preserving the old Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia. Or why the US. Germany, etc. wanted to split it up. Maybe I haven't gotten there yet. (My guess is that Slovenia and Croatia wanted to split up Yugoslavia because they were subsidizing the poor republics (sort of like those white suburbs of Atlanta, which don't want to pay for the inner city). Serbia wanted to keep it together because it had a lot of power in the federation.) -- Jim Devine / "The trick for radicals has been and will be to make of earth a heaven, but without blind faith." -- Mike Yates.
