GORETA MIROSLAV

(P/B) HABITS OF THE BALKAN HEART
When Communism fell in Eastern Europe in 1989, euphoria spread with the expectation of liberal democracy and a New World Order. But in what had been Yugoslavia, a brutal war broke out and giddy optimism gave way to brutality and perplexed despair. Sociologist Stjepan Mestrovic, writing with Slaven Letica and Miroslav Goreta and drawing on theories of social character propounded by such thinkers as de Tocqueville, Veblen, and Bellah, sheds new light on the conflicts in the Balkans. The authors demonstrate that ancient ethnic, social, and na...
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