Serbia: The Democratic Revolution by Svetozar Stojanovic, Svetozar Stojanvoic, Svetozar Stojanovic

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To a translation of his Na Srspkom Delu Titonika (On the Serbian Part of Titonic), written before the October 2000 revolution in Serbia, Stojanovic (philosophy and social theory, U. of Belgrade) has added an autobiographical section, an address on socioeconomic changes he delivered in Belgrade in March 2001, and an article he published in the leading daily newspaper there in October 2001. He has not included an index. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Stojanovic, one of Yugoslavia's most prominent intellectuals and once a leader of the 1960s Praxis group, is struggling to come to terms with a lifetime, and two hard disillusionments in particular. The first was his drift from communist conviction to support for social democracy. The second, more intense and seemingly more painful, was giving up his belief in the Yugoslav idea, an animating faith that he inherited from his father. After an autobiographic introductory essay, much of the book consists of a series of interviews and newspaper articles from 1993 to 2000 in which Stojanovic reflects on his part in events, particularly the post-1992 opposition movement against Slobodan Milosevic and the collaboration with Dobrica Cosic. The final third is an essay exploring the meaning of nationalism in a world of fragmenting multiethnic states. The deeper impulse, however, is the need — especially acute for Serbs of Stojanovic's generation and sensibilities — to repair Serbia's shaken identity.