In its initial period from 1998 to 2000, Otpor! began as a civic protest group, eventually turning into a movement, which adopted the Narodni pokret (the People's Movement) title, against the policies of the Serbian authorities that were under the influence of Slobodan Milošević who at the time was President of Serbia and Montenegro.
在1998年至2000年的最初阶段，Otpor开始是一个公民抗议组织，最终变成一个运动，采取民粹运动（人民运动）的头衔，反对受斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇影响的塞尔维亚当局的政策，他当时是塞尔维亚和黑山总统。