A Brief History of People Power

The Bulldozer Revolution, Serbia, 2000
By the time elections rolled around in 2000, Serbian nationalist President Slobodan Milosevic, whose belligerence led in part to the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, had ruled the country for a decade. But glaring voting irregularities in the polls sparked outrage, reaching a peak on Oct. 5 as hundreds of thousands of people massed in Belgrade. The uprising won the moniker of the "Bulldozer Revolution" after an industrial worker drove his heavy-lifting vehicle into the offices of Serbia's state television, leading to the station's takeover by protesters. Milosevic, whose face is being trampled by a protester in this photo, stepped down two days later.

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