Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration
Held together by apparatchiks and, later, Tito's charisma, Yugoslavia never really incorporated separate Balkan nationalisms into the Pan-Slavic ideal. Macedonia - frequently ignored by Belgrade - had survived centuries of Turkish domination, Bulgarian invasion and Serbian assimilation before it became part of the Yugoslav project in the aftermath of the First World War. Drawing on an extensive analysis of archival material, private correspondence, and newspaper articles, Nada Boskovska provides an arresting account of the Macedonian experience of the interwar years, charting the growth of political consciousness and the often violent state-driven attempts to curb autonomy. Sketching the complex picture of nationalism within a multi-ethnic, but unitarist state through a comprehensive analysis of policy, economy, and education, Yugoslavia and Macedonia before Tito is the first book to describe the uneasy and often turbulent relationship between a Serbian-dominated government and an increasingly politically aware Macedonian people.
Concerned with the question of integration and political manipulation, Boskovska gives credence to voices critical of Royal Yugoslavia and offers a fresh insight into domestic policy and the Macedonian question, going beyond traditional high politics. Broadening the spectrum of discussion and protest, she reveals the voices of a people protesting constitutional and electoral fraud, the neglect of local needs and state machinations designed to create a satellite province.

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Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration
Held together by apparatchiks and, later, Tito's charisma, Yugoslavia never really incorporated separate Balkan nationalisms into the Pan-Slavic ideal. Macedonia - frequently ignored by Belgrade - had survived centuries of Turkish domination, Bulgarian invasion and Serbian assimilation before it became part of the Yugoslav project in the aftermath of the First World War. Drawing on an extensive analysis of archival material, private correspondence, and newspaper articles, Nada Boskovska provides an arresting account of the Macedonian experience of the interwar years, charting the growth of political consciousness and the often violent state-driven attempts to curb autonomy. Sketching the complex picture of nationalism within a multi-ethnic, but unitarist state through a comprehensive analysis of policy, economy, and education, Yugoslavia and Macedonia before Tito is the first book to describe the uneasy and often turbulent relationship between a Serbian-dominated government and an increasingly politically aware Macedonian people.
Concerned with the question of integration and political manipulation, Boskovska gives credence to voices critical of Royal Yugoslavia and offers a fresh insight into domestic policy and the Macedonian question, going beyond traditional high politics. Broadening the spectrum of discussion and protest, she reveals the voices of a people protesting constitutional and electoral fraud, the neglect of local needs and state machinations designed to create a satellite province.

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Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration

Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration

by Nada Boskovska
Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration

Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration

by Nada Boskovska

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Held together by apparatchiks and, later, Tito's charisma, Yugoslavia never really incorporated separate Balkan nationalisms into the Pan-Slavic ideal. Macedonia - frequently ignored by Belgrade - had survived centuries of Turkish domination, Bulgarian invasion and Serbian assimilation before it became part of the Yugoslav project in the aftermath of the First World War. Drawing on an extensive analysis of archival material, private correspondence, and newspaper articles, Nada Boskovska provides an arresting account of the Macedonian experience of the interwar years, charting the growth of political consciousness and the often violent state-driven attempts to curb autonomy. Sketching the complex picture of nationalism within a multi-ethnic, but unitarist state through a comprehensive analysis of policy, economy, and education, Yugoslavia and Macedonia before Tito is the first book to describe the uneasy and often turbulent relationship between a Serbian-dominated government and an increasingly politically aware Macedonian people.
Concerned with the question of integration and political manipulation, Boskovska gives credence to voices critical of Royal Yugoslavia and offers a fresh insight into domestic policy and the Macedonian question, going beyond traditional high politics. Broadening the spectrum of discussion and protest, she reveals the voices of a people protesting constitutional and electoral fraud, the neglect of local needs and state machinations designed to create a satellite province.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780755601028
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/26/2019
Series: Library of Balkan Studies
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Nada Boskovska is Professor of History at the University of Zurich. She is a member of the editorial board of the jourbanal Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas and has led several research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is a member of the board of the Foundation for the Advancement of Studies in Hungarian History, Language and Culture, a member of the advisory board of the Felix Kanitz Society and has organized several international conferences on the Yugoslav/Balkan region. A specialist in Central European and Southeast European history, she is the Editor of two book series' (Beitrage zur Geschichte der Russlandschweizer; Die Schweiz und der Osten Europas) and a Co-editor of the book series Zurcher Beitrage zur Geschichtswissenschaft. She has also authored two German-language monographs

Table of Contents

List of illustrations xi

List of Maps xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction 1

Names and Terms 2

On the Establishment of Yugoslavia 10

The Current State of Research 13

Aims of this Study 17

Regarding Sources 21

1 The Politics of the 1920s 23

A Difficult Start for the New State 23

The 'Macedonian Party' 38

Uprising in Vardar Macedonia? 45

Relaxation of the Tension 1924-5 48

1927: Intensified Terror and Counter-Terror 51

2 Political Developments in the 1930s 69

Hopes in a Dictatorship 69

1931: Coerced Constitution and Sham Parliamentarism 74

The Stojadinovic Era, 1935-9: Economic Recovery, Political Revival 78

Movement among the Macedonian Intelligentsia 84

The 'Lucists' 88

'Even the last shepherd became an official here, if only he was from Serbia and a Serb' 92

The '25th Anniversary of South Serbia's Liberation' 94

The Macedonian Parliamentarians 100

Contacts between the Macedonian Movement and the United Opposition 102

In Expectation of Changes 105

The Understanding with the Croats 112

Skopje as Seat of the 'Serbian Lands' 116

Macedonia and the War 118

Measures against 'Autonomism' and 'Separatism' 122

3 Economy and Finances 129

The Yugoslav Economy 129

Vardar Macedonia: 'Passive' Region or Garden of Eden? 131

Industry 136

Crafts and Trade 140

Finances 142

The 100-Million-Dinar Loan 149

Investments and Development? 153

Skopje as a Model City 160

4 Agriculture 162

Agricultural Reform and Colonisation 162

Crops and Agricultural Problems 172

The Loan System 180

Animal Breeding 181

The Agricultural Policy of the Stojadinovic Government 186

'The Most Crying Grievance': The Tobacco Monopoly 187

Opium: The Demise of a Lucrative Industry 200

5 The Educational System 209

The Elementary Schools 209

Secondary School Education 223

'Nationalisation and Assimilation' through the Schools? 232

University Education 236

6 Transport and Communications 248

The Road Network 248

The Railway 252

The Media 257

Language 264

Conclusion 270

The 'Classical' or the 'Primitive' South? 270

Officials, Teachers and Gendarmes 272

The Economy 275

Modest Investments 277

The Failure of Yugoslav Integration 278

The Unsuccessful Serbianisation of Macedonia 281

'Macedonia for the Macedonians' 284

The Elites in a Dilemma 287

Macedonia as a Special Case within Yugoslavia? 288

Notes 293

Bibliography 339

Index 351

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