Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe

✍ Scribed by John R. Lampe (editor); Mark Mazower (editor)

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction. Reconnecting the Twentieth-Century Histories of Southeastern Europe
A Guide to Further Reading
1 Charisma, Religion, and Ideology: Romania’s Interwar Legion of the Archangel Michael
2. “We Were Defending the State”: Nationalism, Myth, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Croatia
3. Young, Religious, and Radical: The Croat Catholic Youth Organizations, 1922–1945
4. Common Heroes, Divided Claims: IMRO Between Macedonia and Bulgaria
5. How to Use a Classic: Petar Petrovic´ Njegosˇ in the Twentieth Century
6. “The Happy Child” As an Icon of Socialist Transformation: Yugoslavia’s Pioneer Organization
7. Popular Culture and Communist Ideology: Folk Epics in Tito’s Yugoslavia
8. Sounds and Noise in Socialist Bulgaria
9. Greater Albania: The Albanian State and the Question of Kosovo, 1912–2001
10. Struggling with Yugoslavism: Dilemmas of Interwar Serb Political Thought
11. Communist Yugoslavia and Its “Others”
List of Contributors
Index