The History of Yugoslavia

In the 19 eighties, there was a series of leaders who were not really interested in an kind of dialogue and kind of peaceful resolution to a series of political and economic crises. And this is especially true of serbia's new leader, slobode miloshevitch,. He managed to marginalize and then completely purge a more moderate faction that was actually in favor of a dialogue. By that time it became clear that state socialism, say, state socialist command economies, were not working.