ABSTRACT
One open, and important, question about the fall of Yugoslavia is: when did the country pass the point of no return? Other questions are relevant here, too. Can we determine at what point Yugoslavia’s demise was assured? By what time was the will to live up to the spirit, if not the letter, of Yugoslavia’s federative principles evaporated? Was it enough for loyalty to Yugoslavia to die in one key republic, or in just some elite part of one republic, or was there a system-wide failure? And, finally, did nationalism alone kill Yugoslavia, or was it, more properly, a rebellion against the political and economic control of the party that did so?
