The author, a professor from Serbia, analyzes his experiences as a dissident against the former Communist government of Yugoslavia, and the government of Slobodan Milosevic, emphasizing the required nationalism of any viable opposition, and attempting to rehabilitate his academic colleague Dobrica Cosic as well as other associates. At the same time, the author thoroughly and convincingly condemns exclusionary and militaristic nationalism, as obsolete and mortally dangerous to mankind. Not a narrative of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book instead illustrates dilemmas facing Western-democratically inclined intellectuals in Serbia.