Introduction; 1. The rise of the Yugoslav national idea; 2. Creating a synthetic Yugoslav culture; 3. Supranational Yugoslav culture: brotherhood and unity; 4. The precipitous rise and calamitous fall of multinational Yugoslavia; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
Andrew Baruch Wachtel is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. He is the author, most recently, of An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past (Stanford, 1994).
"Discussing the rise and fall of Yugoslavia from a cultural point of view, that is, how the culture(s) of the country contributed to its formation and to its dissolution, this book leads to an entirely new and more accurate understanding of the tragedy of Yugoslavia." - Vasa Mihailovich, University of North Carolina
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