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Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the te…
Banac's work gives new meaning to the troubled ethnic mosaic in the Yugoslav region, based on the historic characteristics and political ideologies of Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes from 1918 to 1921.
The idea of Yugoslavia had already emerged before World War I. This history examines the origins of the idea among related but separate peoples and follows their institutions and ideas right through to the present conflict and tragedy.