Serbia Reading

TransConflict recommends the following books for those interested in learning more about the history, culture and politics of Serbia.

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Literature and First-Hand Accounts

Hidden Camera (Eastern European Literature) – by Zoran Zivkovic
The Tiger’s Wife – by Tea Obrecht
Hamam Balkania – by Vladislav Bajac
Gotz & Meyer – by David Albahari
The Cyclist Conspiracy – by Svetislav Basara



Academic and Policy-Oriented

The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia – by Tim Judah
Serbia’s Antibureaucratic Revolution: Milosevic, the Fall of Communism and Nationalist Mobilization – by Nebojsa Vladisavljevic
The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives (Post-Communist Cultural Studies) – by Eric D. Gordy
The Road to War in Serbia: Trauma and Catharsis – by Nebojsa Popov
Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans: The Narratives of Denial in Post-Conflict Serbia – by Jelena Obradovic
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s – by V.P. Gagnon
Saviours of the Nation: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism – by Jasna Dragovic-Soso

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