Ideologies and National Identities:
The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe
Edited by John Lampe, University of Maryland
and
Mark Mazower, London University, Birkbeck College
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three,
separate decades of international and civil war, and
was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic
changes. This book is the result of a year-long project
by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise
this tumultuous century.
A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history,
anthropology, political science, and comparative literature
were brought together for this undertaking. The studies
invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism
as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters
deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on
the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's
ideology and national identity.
"This ably edited volume dealing with twentieth-century
southeastern Europe is most welcome. ...the project
coorrdinators came to an agreement with their collaborators
to foicus on nationalis, communism, fascism, liberalism,
and religion. And indeed, all of these elements may
be found between the covers of this volume, although
the contributors were evidently given free rein. ...this
volume offers insights into some neglected areas and
is a most welcome addition to the literature on the
history of East Central Europe." - The American
Historical Review
"A truly unique and splendid addition to historical
writing on southeastern Europe... Unique is the editors'
insistence that each author include several translated
primary sources. The diversity of sources is unrivaled
by any documentary reader available to those of us who
teach European, east European or Balkan history."
- Slavic Review
Contents
Introduction - John R. Lampe: Reconnecting the
20th Century Histories of Southeastern Europe; Chapter
1 - Constantin Iordachi: Charisma, Religion and
Ideology: Romania's Interwar Legion of the Archangel
Michael; Chapter 2 - Mark Biondich: 'We were
defending the State': Nationalism, Myth, and Memory
in 20th century Croatia; Chapter 3 - Sandra Prlenda:
Young, Religious and Radical: The Croat Catholic Youth
Organizations 1922 - 1945; Chapter 4 - James
Frusetta: Common Heroes, Divided Claims. IMRO between
Macedonia and Bulgaria; Chapter 5 - Andrew B.
Wachtel: How to Use a Classic: Petar Petrovic Njegoš
in the 20th Century; Chapter 6 - Ildiko Erdei:
'The happy child' as the icon of socialist transformation:Yugoslavia's
Pioneer Organization; Chapter 7 - Maja Brkljacic:
Popular Culture and Communist Ideology: Folk Epics in
Tito's Yugoslavia; Chapter 8 - Rossitza Guentcheva:
Sounds and Noise in Socialist Bulgaria; Chapter 9
- Robert C. Austin: Greater Albania: The Albanian State
and the Question of Kosovo, 1912 - 2001; Chapter
10 - Marko Bulatovic: Struggling with Yugoslavism:
Dilemmas of Interwar Serb Political Thought; Chapter
11 - Dejan Jovic: Communist Yugoslavia and Its 'Others'
2004
438 pages
ISBN 978-963-9241-72-5 cloth $49.95 / €42.95 / £32.95
ISBN 978-963-9241-82-4 paperback $23.95 / €19.95 / £13.95
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