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Book SynopsisAt the time of Serbia's emergence from the ruins of Tito's Yugoslavia and of Milosevic's regime, Stevan Pavlowitch shuns the "doomed to violence" and the "doomed to martyrdom" paradigms favored respectively by some Western and Serbian analysts in order to pose difficult questions about Serbian history.
Trade ReviewA highly readable narrative of nineteenth and twentiety century Serbian history told with verve and deep knowledge., author of Dark Continent: Europe in the Twentieth Century -- Mark Mazower,author of Dark Continent: Europe in the Twentieth Century
If you want to step back and take a more historical view, Steven Pavlowitch's account of Serbian history from the Middle Ages until today is a good place to start. * Economist *
Pavlowitch has consistently maintained a very high standard of accuracy and scholarship in all of his work on the former Yugoslavia. * New York Review of Books,April 25, 2002 *