From dissidents to presidents: Dobrica Ćosić and Vojislav Koštunica compared

Contemporary European History

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-201

  Budding, Audrey H ^a  

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References (54)

1. Dobrica Ćosić, Koreni (Belgrade: Prosveta, 1966), 154 (all translations are by the author)
2. Cf. Nicholas J. Miller, 'The Nonconformists: Dobrica Ćosić and Mića Popović Envision Serbia', Slavic Review, 58,3 (1999), 515-36
3. For the 'high-rise villages', see 'Kako da stvaramo sebe?', in Dobrica Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće (Ljubljana and Zagreb: Cankarjeva založba, 1988), 8
4. I examine the Ćosić-Pirjevec polemic in Budding, 'Yugoslavs into Serbs', 409-10 (from which this paragraph adapts some material), and issues arising from the conflation of 'nation' and 'republic' in Budding, 'Nation/People/Republic: Self-determination in Socialist Yugoslavia', in Lenard J. Cohen and Jasna Dragović-Soso, eds., Rethinking Yugoslavia's Dissolution (Chicago: Purdue University Press, forthcoming, 2004)
5. For the 1980s Serb-Slovene debates see Jasna Dragović-Soso, 'Saviours of the Nation': Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism (London: Hurst & Co., 2002), 195-205
6. Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenski intelektualci: od vojaške do civilne druzbe (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1989), 103
7. See Budding, 'Yugoslavs into Serbs,' 409-15. Cf. the insightful treatment of the Plenum and its consequences in Jasna Dragović-Soso, 'Saviours of the Nation', 38-41
8. Glasnik Srpske književne zadruge, 26, 5 (20 June 1971), 4-9. For more on Ćosić's term as Zadruga president see Budding, 'Serb Intellectuals', ch. 3
9. Cf. Nick Miller's 'The Children of Cain: Dobrica Ćosić's Serbia', East European Politics and Societies, 14-2 (2000), 268-87
10. and Jasna Dragović-Soso, 'Saviours of the Nation', 89-96
11. The petition for Izetbegović, signed on 8 Oct. 1987, was printed in the Slovene journal Nova revija, 6/67-8 (1987), 2069
12. For more on the Board's activities, see the documents collected in Aleksa cross D signilas, Srpsko pitanje (Belgrade: Politika, 1991), 255-88
13. Ciril Zlobec, 'Otvoreno pismo pre svega Slobodanu Milošević u', Delo, 11 Mar. 1989
14. Cf. the discussions in Dragović-Soso, 'Saviours of the Nation', 240-1 and in Veljko Vujačić, 'Communism and Nationalism in Russia and Serbia', (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1995), 431-2
15. and Borisav Jović, Poslednji dani SFRJ: izvodi iz dnevnika (Belgrade: Politika, 1995), 191-4 and 273-5 for Ćosić's role as intermediary
16. Slavoljub cross D signukić, Lovljenje vetra: politička ispovest Dobrice Ćosica (Belgrade: Samizdat B92, 2001), 167-8
17. See especially Ćosić's interview in NIN (3 Aug. 1990), given just after Marković formed his pro-Yugoslav Alliance of Reform Forces. Ćosić was not, of course, alone in contending that maintaining Yugoslavia was not in the Serbian interest. Olivera Milosavljević has analysed this concept of 'Yugoslavia as a mistake' in her 'Jugoslavija kao zabluda', in Nebojša Popov, ed.,Srpska strana rata (Belgrade: Republika, 1996), 60-88
18. See Ćosić's Nov. 1986 letter to Slovene dissident Spomenka Hribar in his Srpsko pitanje - demokratsko pitanje (Belgrade: Politika, 1992), 109
19. See Ćosić, Srpsko pitanje - demokratsko pitanje, 219
20. See, e.g., cross D signukić, Lovljenje vetra, 169
21. Besides the statements quoted, see Dobrica Ćosić, Promene (Novi Sad: Dnevnik, 1992), 200
22. See Slobodan Antonić, Zarobljena zemlja: Srbija za vlade Slobodana Miloševića (Belgrade: Otkrovenje, 2002), 135
23. and Ćosić, Promene, 200-1. I summarise Miloš ević's own position in Audrey Budding, 'Serbian Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: Historical Background and Context' (an expert report prepared in 2002 for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), 65-7. The report is available online at http://hague.bard.edu/icty-info.html
24. Slobodan Samardžić, 'Federalizam u Švajcarskoj i Jugoslaviji - ustavni koncepti i političke institucije', in Tomas Flajner and Slobodan Samardžić, eds., Federalizam i problem manjina u višeetničkim zajednicama: uporedna analiza Švajcarske i Jugoslavije (Belgrade: Institut za evropske studije, 1995), 94
25. See Lenard J. Cohen, Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition, 2nd edn (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), 128-9
26. and Ivo Goldstein, Croatia: A History (London: Hurst & Co., 1999), 212-13
27. For the circumstances in which Ćosić assumed the presidency see Antonić, Zarobljena zemlja, 130-1
28. Svetozar Stojanović, Autoritet bez vlasti: Dobrica Ćosić kao šef države (Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1993)
29. and Dragoslav Rančić, Dobrica Ćosić ili predsednik bez vlasti (Belgrade: Crno na belo, 1994)
30. cf. Robert Thomas, The Politics of Serbia in the 1990s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), 126-8
31. For a defence of Ćosić see Stojanović, Autoritet bez vlasti, 31-3
32. For Ćosić's international profile see David Owen, Balkan Odyssey (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 56-60 and passim
33. Cited according to 'Integral Text of Yugoslav President Dobrica Ćosić's First Address at Bosnian Serb Parliament (unofficial translation of transcript)' in Focus, 10, 93 (May 18, 1993), 21-3
34. Milošević's motives for ousting Ćosić at this time are disputed. See Thomas, Politics of Serbia, 156
35. and Rančić, Dobrica Ćosić, 242-53
36. Cf. Dragović-Soso, 'Saviours of the Nation', 44-5
37. These quotations are taken from the English version: Vojislav Koštunica and Kosta Čavoški, Party Pluralism or Monism: Social Movements and the Political System (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1985), 98, 132 (both come from a chapter written by Koštunica; see the authors' statement on p. vii)
38. See Koštunica's July 1989 interview in Nadežda Gaće, Jugoslavija: suočavanje sa sudbinom (Belgrade, 1990), 172-7
39. his 'Za stvarni stranački pluralizam', in Demokratija (the party newspaper of the newly formed Democratic Party), 9 March 1990
40. and his preface, 'Milan Grol ili načelnost u politici', in Milan Grol, Londonski dnevnik 1941-1945 (Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1990), x-xv
41. See Koštunica and Kosta Čavoški, 'Komentar k Tezam za ustavo Republike Slovenije', Nova revija, 7, 78-79 (1988), 1538-44
42. and Vojislav Koštunica, 'The Constitution and the Federal States', in Dennison Rusinow, ed., Yugoslavia: A Fractured Federalism (Washington: The Wilson Centre Press, 1988), 78-92
43. For instance, compare the speeches made at early promotional events by two of the party's founders: Gojko cross D signogo, 'Kosovo je srpsko sudilište', Demokratija, 9 March 1990, and Slobodan Inić, 'Nacionalni smo na demokratski način', Demokratija, 31 March 1990
44. Ognjen Pribićević, Vlast i opozicija u Srbiji (Belgrade: Radio B92, 1997)
45. Dubravka Stojanovic, 'Traumaticni krug srpske opozicije', in Popov, Srpska strana rata, 501-30
46. Program i statut Demokratske stranke Srbije (Belgrade: DSS, 1993)
47. See, e.g., Borba, 13 Apr. 1993
48. Cf. Thomas, Politics of Serbia, 151, and Stojanović, 'Traumatični krug', 523
49. See Antonić, Zarobljena zemlja, 177-8 and 314-15
50. I have made the same argument in an opinion piece: Audrey Budding, '"The Man Who Overthrew Milošević:', Vojislav Koštunica, One Year Later', The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 26, 1 (Winter/Spring 2002), 159-65
51. and Nastasja Radović, 'Teška saradnja', (on co-operation with The Hague) Republika, 262 (1-15 June 2001)
52. Two illuminating comparative analyses are Veljko Vujačić, 'Historical Legacies, Nationalist Mobilisation, and Political Outcomes in Russia and Serbia: A Weberian View', Theory and Society, 25 (1996), 763-801
53. and Valerie Bunce, 'Peaceful versus Violent State Dismemberment: A Comparison of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia', Politics & Society, 27, 2 (1999), 217-37
54. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), 1