ALEKSANDAR LUKASHENKO – SLOBODAN MILOŠEVIĆ: A COMPARISON Cover Image

АЛЕКСАНДАР ЛУКАШЕНКО – СЛОБОДАН МИЛОШЕВИЋ: ЈЕДНО ПОРЕЂЕЊЕ
ALEKSANDAR LUKASHENKO – SLOBODAN MILOŠEVIĆ: A COMPARISON

Author(s): Slobodan Č. Antonić
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Comparative politics, Evaluation research, History of Communism
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Miloshevic; Lukashenko; political regime; populism; communism;

Summary/Abstract: The first period of Milošević's rule, dominated by plebiscitary-populist legitimacy, bears an uncanny resemblance to the rule of Napoleon III. But there is also one contemporary whose regime can also be taken for a close cousin of Milošević's – the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. Like Milošević, Lukashenko also represents a relict of dogmatic communism. Lukashenko, too, used populism in his rise to power. And though this populism had no nationalist traits, its basic idea also rested on a kind of anti-bureaucratic revolution - the struggle against corruption. Lukashenko's rise, too, was accompanied by support or silent passivity of the strategic elites.

  • Issue Year: 34/2000
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 159-170
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian
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