Srbsko mezi Titem a Miloševičem
Serbia between Tito and Milošević

Summary/Abstract: According to the reviewer, the monograph by the prominent Serbian historian Slobodan Selinić, entitled "Srbija 1980–1986: Politička istorija od Tita do Miloševića" [Serbia 1980–1986: Political History from Tito to Milošević], is a ground-breaking work which deals with many issues that historiography has not yet touched upon. The price for this virtue, however, is the fluctuating quality of interpretation and sometimes a lack of clarity. Among the best parts of the book are the description of the rise to power of Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006) and the portrayal of the relatively tolerant attitude of the Serbian political leadership towards domestic dissent and independent criticism in the 1980s. In contrast, the chapter on the Kosovo problem within the Socialist Republic of Serbia and the Yugoslav Federation is one-sided and even biased. An even greater pitfall, however, according to the reviewer, is that the author does not define the content of the political history of Serbia itself, present in the book’s subtitle, and does not attempt to clarify how the complex interactions and competencies between Serbian republican and Yugoslav federal institutions and officials developed after the death of Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980).

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