Entangled Paths Towards Modernity
Contextualizing socialism and nationalism in the Balkans

Augusta Dimou is academic associate researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany.

The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.

Contents

Acknowledgments I. Introduction II Intellectuals III The ambiguities of modernity (Serbia) IV Caught up in the contradictions of modernity (Bulgaria) V Modernity without socialism (Greece) VI Epilogue List of abbreviations Index

Note: A separately printed Bibliography belongs to this title. Customers who miss this addendum will receive one free of charge upon request indicating postal address, sent to ceupress@ceu.hu

2009
450 pages + 20 pages bibliography
ISBN 978-963-9776-38-8 cloth $50.00 / € 39.95 / £33.00