...Theodore Ropp The War We Lost: Yugoslavia’s Tragedy and the Failure of the West . By Fotitch Constantin . New York : The Viking Press , 1948 . Pp. viii , 344 . $3.50 . The Struggle Behind the Iron Curtain . By Nagy Ferenc . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp...

... of the camp. Yet, Stalin apparently disregarded the advantages of a monolithic camp and deliberately initiated a dispute with Tito. This was all the more surprising be­ cause, of all the Communist-controlled governments in eastern Europe, only that of Yugoslavia had come to power largely with popular support...

.... before 1948, Yugoslavia continues to assert that its communism is more Marxist than Moscow s, which is dubbed bu­ reaucratic state capitalism. Those in the United States who oppose aid to Titoist Yugloslavia present two strong arguments: first, by supporting a communist re­ gime, we compromise...

... career a partisan Šghter, state prosecutor, legal scholar, and ambassador to Poland, Dr. Ho evar greeted the students with a strident proclamation: Changes yes, circus no (Spremembe da, cirkus ne). Recently, a small body of literature has emerged on the topic of 1968 in Yugoslavia. The central point...

... accuser in the Moscow trials of the mid-thirties, who has since become Minister of Foreign Affairs for the U.S.S.R. Less than one month after the trial in Budapest, Yugoslavia was elected at Lake Success to the Security Council of the United Nations and charged, in principle at least, with the maintenance...

... Affairs, he is an acknowledged expert in international affairs. Frequent visits to Yugoslavia, beginning with a brief tour of duty in Belgrade as the American assistant military attache after World War I and including one in 1949 when he interviewed Tito and other Yugoslav leaders and visited Hungary...

... Yugoslavia, Kulenović’s invocation of Cleaver's erstwhile take on rape 1 fed narratives that positioned Bosnian and Croat Muslims closer to whiteness, one threatened by Serbian ethno-religious nationalism. Through this maneuver, the economic fallout of the Cold War's end, the withdrawal of Soviet...

... in both economic and political terms. Indeed, Yugoslavia s growth was among the strongest globally at this time, and the workers councils were largely collective, operating by referendum. This was so successful that the population requested more self-manage- ment, which would normally have brought about...

... Europe are properly called satellites; nevertheless, too simple a picture ought not to be accepted. Con­ sider Yugoslavia first. As early as 1948, Yugoslavia broke loose from Soviet control in circumstances that are familiar and will not be discussed here. The Yugoslav case derives its significance...

... as an historian of the Titoist heresy and as a spokesman of the democratic world are excellent. As the editor of the distinguished quarterly Foreign Affairs, he is an acknowledged expert in international affairs. Frequent visits to Yugoslavia, beginning with a brief tour of duty in Belgrade as the American...

... their appetites for French colonies so that the French might be tempted to join the war against England. He told Mussolini and the Bulgarians that they must not only not attack Yugoslavia but 1 The United States Department of State and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are [in 1962-1963] publishing...

... an illusion, but still, they are doing it 1), than by the sheer strangeness of the name: all those little vs and zs! The South Atlantic Quarterly qj'.z, Spring 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press. 476 Robert Miklitsch Slovenia as X-Yugoslavia. Zizek hails of course from the East, as in Eastern...

... 404 The South Atlantic Quarterly had never had their own political life were established. Old, estab­ lished economic links were disrupted in order to create seven new independent states: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Others, e.g., Rumania, Italy...

... explanation of the interethnic violence capturing the politi- cal and theoretical attention of the West. At a time when Yugoslavia was literally in flames, the Lacanians’ discursive strategy was to identify the Bal- kans as the Lacanian real, which worked as a theoretical reinforcement...

... it is presented within the framework of a humanitarian ‘‘justification’’ of the bombing of Yugoslavia. The Kosovo war, like the war in Afghanistan begun following the Septem- ber 11, 2001, attacks, did serve to introduce into public debate the various conceptions, indeed oppositions, that have traversed...

... . 8 These included the establishment of the ad hoc tribunals to adjudicate serious violations of international humanitarian law, specifically for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, in 1993 and 1994, respectively. The ad hoc tribunals paved the way for the eventual adoption of the Rome Treaty in 1998...

... of more than a month in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The opportunity in 1970 to talk with delegates Russian, satellite, and capitalist at the Len­ ingrad and Moscow meetings, to see how the Russians ran the meet­ ings, to wander down side streets, all contributed to a picture...

..., territorial misunderstandings, or military alignment. The two Communist worlds are united by a set of beliefs which has in Communist China,: Some Observations 165 each case inspired a tough and well-qualified elite to sweep away the preceding civilization. In the case of Yugoslavia the Russians were near...

... the impact of Milligan s Missouri Waltz, which pounds home the thesis that bossism as represented by the Pendergasts is destructive of democracy and conducive to fascism. Richard L. Watson, Jr. The War We Lost: Yugoslavia's Tragedy and the Failure of the West. By Constantin Fotitch. New York: The Viking...

... is that Nagy s naivete in international affairs is quite genuine; the peasants leaders were so wrapped up in the Struggle against the Horthy dictatorship at home that they had very little idea of that dictatorship s responsibility for the coming of the war, or of the Hungarian army s atrocities in Yugoslavia...