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Milosevic: The People's Tyrant
Vidosav Stevanovic
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Description for Milosevic: The People's Tyrant
Hardcover. As Milosevic faces trial in The Hague for war crimes, this biography by one of Serbia's greatest writers presents a story of tragic, near-Shakespearean proportions. Stevanovic, with the knowledge of an insider, tells how a fractured country and a shattered society could raise such a man to such power. Translator(s): Filipovic, Zlata. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; BGH; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Slobodan Milosevic - Belgrade's tyrant and successor to Tito, 'Butcher of the Balkans' - represents, in many ways, the final shudder of that particularly aggressive 20th-century brand of the creature that was nationalism. His life story is a study in evil: in the 'banality of evil' to use Hannah Arendt's famous phrase. With all the intensity and horror of personal experience, Vidosav Stevanovic, perhaps Serbia's greatest modern writer, tells how Milosevic, a man devoid of any true qualities, climbed his way to the top in slow, silent, murderous steps. But, behind the facade of a grey bureaucrat, is a character ... Read more
Slobodan Milosevic - Belgrade's tyrant and successor to Tito, 'Butcher of the Balkans' - represents, in many ways, the final shudder of that particularly aggressive 20th-century brand of the creature that was nationalism. His life story is a study in evil: in the 'banality of evil' to use Hannah Arendt's famous phrase. With all the intensity and horror of personal experience, Vidosav Stevanovic, perhaps Serbia's greatest modern writer, tells how Milosevic, a man devoid of any true qualities, climbed his way to the top in slow, silent, murderous steps. But, behind the facade of a grey bureaucrat, is a character ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860648427
SKU
V9781860648427
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About Vidosav Stevanovic
Vidosav Stevanovic ran the two biggest publishing houses in the Balkans before fleeing to exile in Paris where he now lives. He has written more than ten novels and won the Nin prize - Serbia's most prestigious literary award. Zlata Filipovic is the author of Zlata's Diary, her account of life in Sarajevo during the war. Written when she 12, ... Read more
Reviews for Milosevic: The People's Tyrant
"Stevanovic has elegantly and mercilessly exposed the currents within Serbian society that made the Milosevic phenomenon possible." -The Sunday Times 'Much the best book about that sinister and mysterious figure that I have read: done with passion and a novelist's talent. It provides a mordant and brilliant analysis of vacillating Western attitudes, as well as a fascinating inside account ... Read more