BELGRADE — Dobrica Cosic, a nationalist writer who served briefly as Yugoslavia’s president as the country unraveled in civil war, died Sunday, his family said. He was 92. Mr. Cosic, a former ...
It felt like déjà vu. I spent time with Iraqi journalists and intellectuals recently. They talked, anguished about the disintegration of their country. One female journalist lamented that she no ...
Over the two hours and 45 minutes of George Bogdanich's investigative documentary Yugoslavia, The Avoidable War, there's scarcely a moment where someone isn't talking. Amid the steady tones of ...
This story was originally published in the May 1993 issue of SPIN. In honor of SPIN’s 30th anniversary, we’ve republished this piece as part of our ongoing “30 ...
Yugoslavia collapsed because it was built on unstable borders, competing ethnic identities, and a fragile political system held together by Tito’s authority. After his death, economic crisis and ...