Specifically, the regime maintains itself not by mobilizing opinion or feeling in its favor, but by making alterna¬ tives to its rule unavailable. The mobilization of ethnic hatred is certainly not irrelevant, and these conventional answers tnay explain some aspects of the Serbian regime’s accession to power, but the anomaly still presents itself: How does the regime remain in power? The answer I have derived from my research into politics, information, sociability, and popular culture in contemporary Belgrade is that the re¬ gime’s strategies of self-preservation can be found in everyday life-in the destruction of alternatives. Teria, and some mystical form of ethnic hatred that is somehow “centuries old,” lies dormant for most of these centuries, then effortlessly awakens at a moment’s notice. Conventional answers to the paradox of Milosevic’s longevity in power involve enthusiastic response to demagogic nationalist rhetoric, war hys. Since legitimizing its power as the successor of Serbia’s League of Communists in December 1990, it has engaged in three losing military conflicts, produced over 500,000 refugees whose in¬ terests it had come to power promising to protect, presided over the hug¬ est hyperinflation in modern times, and turned back on its original dangerous and defining promise to see “all Serbs in one state.” Aside from its long list of failures, the party in power has not once received a majority of votes in an election, and each election after 1990 has seen its support declining further. How does the regime of Slobodan Milosevic’s SPS (Socijalisticka partija Srbije) remain in power in Serbia? By most measures of predicting the success or failure of regimes in political power, it ought not to have sur¬ vived as long as it has.
A street-corner currency dealer offers to exchange largedenomination dinar notes for single dollars during the period of hyperinflation in 1993. Turbofolk singer Svetlana Velickovic-Ceca in performance.ĩ. The antiwar band Rimtutituki performs at an antiwar demon¬ stration in Belgrade in 1992.ħ. Volunteers selling a “special edition” of the newspaper Borba after it was taken over by the regime in December 1994.Ħ. Vojislav Seselj, leader of the ultraright Serbian Radical Party, confronts his critics in a dramatic manner.Ĥ. The leaders of the parties in the Zajedno coalition during the student and citizen protests, December 1996.ģ. The Milosevic family at the inauguration of Slobodan Milo¬ sevic as president of SRJ in 1997.Ģ.
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