Yugoslavia: A Concise History

✍ Scribed by Leslie Benson (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Yugoslavia: A Concise History surveys the whole turbulent course of the country's history, in the context of the struggles between great powers for control of the Balkans. Torn apart by nationalist rivalries, the first Yugoslavia lapsed into paralysis and dictatorship. Axis occupation in 1941 unleashed a murderous civil war, in which the Communist Party emerged victorious. Tito's Yugoslavia appeared to the world as a peaceful, multi-national federation, but in the end disintegrated amid barbarism unknown in Europe for half a century. This revised and fully updated edition explains why, and takes the events up to the arrest of Milosevic in 2001and beyond.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Prologue: The Road to Kumanovo....Pages 1-20
War and Unification....Pages 21-37
The Brief Life of Constitutional Government....Pages 38-56
Encirclement and Destruction of the First Yugoslavia....Pages 57-72
War, Civil War and Revolution....Pages 73-93
The Long March of Revisionism....Pages 94-110
Reform — and Reaction....Pages 111-131
The End of Titoism....Pages 132-154
Back to Kumanovo....Pages 155-178
Postscript, June 2003: Re-making the Balkans....Pages 179-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-221

✦ Subjects

European History; Modern History