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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809165703321

Titolo

New perspectives on Yugoslavia : key issues and controversies / / edited by Dejan Djokic and James Ker-Lindsay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93131-7

1-136-93132-5

1-282-93035-4

9786612930355

0-203-84601-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DjokicDejan

Ker-LindsayJames <1972->

Disciplina

949.702

Soggetti

Yugoslavia History

Former Yugoslav republics Ethnic relations History

Former Yugoslav republics History

Yugoslavia Ethnic relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Note on Spelling and Pronunciation; Introduction; 1 Yugoslavism in the Early Twentieth Century: The politics of the Yugoslav Committee; 2 The Great War and the Yugoslav Grassroots: Popular mobilization in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-18; 3 Forging a United Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: The legacy of the First World War and the 'invalid question'; 4 National Mobilization in the 1930s: The emergence of the 'Serb question' in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

5 Ethnic Violence in Occupied Yugoslavia: Mass killing from above and below6 Yugoslavia in Exile: The London-based wartime government, 1941-45; 7 Reassessing Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-90: The case of Croatia; 8 The Break-up of Yugoslavia: The role of popular politics; 9 Popular Mobilization in the 1990s: Nationalism, democracy and the slow decline of the MilosĖŒevic regime; 10 The 'Final' Yugoslav Issue: The



evolution of international thinking on Kosovo, 1998-2005; 11 Coming to Terms with the Past: Transitional justice and reconciliation in the post-Yugoslav lands; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East Europe, this volume explores the history of Yugoslavia from creation to dissolution.Drawing on the very latest historical research, this book explains how the country came about, how it evolved and why, eventually, it failed. From the start of the twentieth century, through the First World War, the interwar years and the Second World