History of the Balkans: Volume 2
This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the divergent paths followed by the five states (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia) since 1945.
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History of the Balkans: Volume 2
This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the divergent paths followed by the five states (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia) since 1945.
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History of the Balkans: Volume 2

History of the Balkans: Volume 2

by Barbara Jelavich
History of the Balkans: Volume 2

History of the Balkans: Volume 2

by Barbara Jelavich

Overview

This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the divergent paths followed by the five states (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia) since 1945.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521274593
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/29/1983
Series: Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series , #12
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 492
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface; Introduction; Part I. War and National Consolidation, 1887–1941: 1. The Balkan national monarchies; 2. The dual monarchy: Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1914; 3. The end of Ottoman rule in Europe: the Albanian and Macedonian questions; 4. World War I; 5. The first postwar decade; 6. Balkan authoritarian regimes: the outbreak of World War II; Part II. World War II and the Postwar Developments: 7. The Balkan states in World War II; 8. The immediate postwar readjustments: the Greek civil war and the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict; 9. The Communist governments, 1950–1980; 10. The Greek alternative; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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