Balkan Academic News

"This book is about three Serbian intellectuals -- Dobrica C'osic' (writer), Mic'a Popovic' (painter) and Borislav Mihajlovic' Mihiz (literary critic and theater director) and their work after Second World War until the beginning of nineties. We could see how they wrote or painted, as well as the revival of nationalism in Serbia during that period. In fact, this is a book about nationalism in Serbia. Miller's intention was to look closer in its revival, mainly in intellectual circuits and he completely succeeded in that. Miller is showing us what was the position of the Serbs in Yugoslavia, and that turning to nationalism was provoked by unfulfilled promises made by the Communist Party and that it was direct response to it. One of that promises was extermination of nationalism in Yugoslavia, but, while only a hint of nationalism in Serbia was sanctioned, that was not the case in Croatia and Slovenia. This book explains that the revival of nationalism among intellectuals in Serbia, and among Serbs in general, was a process, not a sudden appearance. As Miller strongly argues, Serbs were pushed towards this process."
Reviewed book: 
Author: 
Nick Miller
ISBN: 
978-963-7326-93-6
cloth
$111.00 / €95.00 / £90.00
ISBN: 
978-963-9776-13-5
paperback
$35.95 / €29.95 / £25.95