Civil-military Relations In The Soviet And Yugoslav Successor States
Civil-military Relations In The Soviet And Yugoslav Successor States

Author: Constantine P. Danopoulos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0429723466

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From open civil war in Bosnia and Georgia to the Russian president’s use of military units against an uncooperative parliament, civil-military conflicts in the former USSR and Yugoslavia are increasingly attracting world-wide attention and concern. This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the roles of the armed forces in the ongoing struggles for control over the processes of state formation and government in these newly independent countries. Twelve chapters focus on the experiences of particular countries in the region; and introductory and concluding chapters draw out commonalities and differences among the cases, comparing them with one another as well as with post-authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world.

Balkan holocausts?
Balkan holocausts?

Author: David Bruce MacDonald

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 1847795706

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Comparing and contrasting propaganda in Serbia and Croatia from 1986 to 1999, this book analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of Holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called Holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. There is a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the Internet, detailing how and why the Internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, and a theme-by-theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals.

Britain and the Balkans
Britain and the Balkans

Author: Carole Hodge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134425570

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This book traces the evolution of British policy in former Yugoslavia, from the onset of war in Croatia and Bosnia to the NATO action in Kosovo and beyond, examining the underlying factors which have governed Britain's Balkans policy.

Transformations of Post-Communist States
Transformations of Post-Communist States

Author: W. Kostecki

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-04-07

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0230511309

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Post-communist transformation differs from any previous experience of societies in transition by its scope, speed, international framework and complicity. It contains elements of democratization, marketization, nation building, and the creation of a new international environment in the framework of globalization. The contributors give an 'internal' perspective of these highly complicated processes in a comparative form and using a multidisciplinary approach.

Agrarianism as Modernity in 20th-Century Europe
Agrarianism as Modernity in 20th-Century Europe

Author: Alex Toshkov

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350090565

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Whilst Soviet communism and its relationship with modernity has been widely studied to date, the agrarian experiment in Eastern Europe has been relegated to the margins of historical analysis. In this comparative study, Alex Toshkov uncovers the history of agrarianism after the First World War and explores its place as an alternative modernity to liberal democracy and capitalism. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book explores the transnational connections between the paradigmatic cases of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, as well as the International Agrarian Bureau in Prague, teasing out contradictions, hidden records and silenced interpretations of agrarianism. In addition, it uses a microhistorical approach to present an innovative theoretical framework which adds to our understanding of nationalism, political corruption, and alterity and the subaltern. This fascinating study restores interwar agrarianism to its rightful place as one of the most original and significant political currents in 20th-century Europe.

The Balkans
The Balkans

Author: Mark Biondich

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0199299056

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Examines the origins of political violence in the Balkans since the 19th century, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history, reminding us that political violence and ethnic cleansing are hardly unique to this region.

Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three
Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three

Author: Roumen Daskalov

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9004290362

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Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They view the modern history of the region from a transnational and relational perspective in terms of shared and connected, as well as entangled histories. This regards the treatment of shared historical legacies by rival national historiographies. The volume deals with historiograpical disputes that arose in the process of “nationalizing” the past. Contributors include: Diana Mishkova, Alexander Vezenkov, Roumen Daskalov, Tchavdar Marinov and Bernard Lory.