Yugoslavia: A Concise History

✍ Scribed by Leslie Benson

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Today, only Serbia and (for now) Montenegro are what remain of the republics that once constituted Yugoslavia. The former Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, named Yugoslavia in 1929, has been a flashpoint of violence, terror, ethnic strife, and failed politics—and a mirror on the conflicts of the 20th century. From the first Serbian uprising against the Turks in 1804 to the coming trial and likely fate of Slobodan Milosevic, Leslie Benson provides a clear, concise guide to the making and unmaking of a nation, and what it means for a new century of nationalist conflicts.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Serbo-Croatian language......Page 11
Maps......Page 13
Glossary......Page 14
Chronology of Events......Page 16
1. Prologue: The Road to Kumanovo......Page 32
2. War and Unification......Page 52
3. The Brief Life of Constitutional Government......Page 69
4. Encirclement and Destruction of the First Yugoslavia......Page 88
5. War, Civil War and Revolution......Page 104
6. The Long March of Revisionism......Page 125
7. Reform – and Reaction......Page 142
8. The End of Titoism......Page 163
9. Back to Kumanovo......Page 186
Notes......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 222
Index......Page 228