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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787003203321

Autore

Nielsen Christian Axboe

Titolo

Making Yugoslavs : Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia / / Christian Axboe Nielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6925-X

1-4426-6924-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Disciplina

949.702/1

Soggetti

Nationalism - Yugoslavia - History - 20th century

Yugoslavia Ethnic relations History 20th century

Yugoslavia History 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I: The Collapse of Constitutional Monarchy In Yugoslavia. 1. National Ideology and the Formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes -- 2. "A Tribal and Parliamentary Dictatorship": The 1920s in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

Part III: Making Modern Yugoslavs out of "Tribalists". 4. Nationalist Workers of Yugoslavia, Unite!: Moulding Yugoslavs -- 5. Policing Yugoslavism: Surveillance, Denunciations, and Ideology in Daily Life.

Part IV: The Assassination of Aleksandar and the Strange Afterlife of His Dictatorship. 6. The Return of "Democracy" -- 7. Epilogue and Conclusion: "Preserve My Yugoslavia": The Struggle Surrounding the Alexandrine Legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of King Aleksandar's dictatorship's program of forced nationalization in the interwar era.