The death of Tito, the death of Yugoslavia.

Accounts of ex-Yugoslavia’s politicians have been particularly useful in the last few years.
Still, Raif Dizdarevic’s work stands out for two reasons: the first is that the author is Bosnian, the first of many – Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – who have undertaken the task of writing about the collapse of Yugoslavia.
 
Secondly, and in contrast to other similar attempts, these memories cover an entire decade and not just the last phases prior to the country’s collapse.
 
This approach proves successful and the reader will find in Dizdarevic’s pages the most important and controversial events leading Yugoslavia from Tito’s last days to the catastrophe. The political suicide of a state is thus presented in relation to the mechanisms of communist power, which Dizdarevic got to know intimately from the time he was a partisan until he became president of Bosnia, president of the federal parliament, foreign minister and finally president of the Yugoslav federation.