History of the Balkans: Volume 2

This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, focusing particularly on Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia since 1945.

Barbara Jelavich (Author)

9780521274593, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 July 1983

492 pages
23.3 x 15.5 x 3 cm, 0.695 kg

This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the divergent paths followed by the five states (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia) since 1945.

List of maps
Preface
Introduction
Part I. War and National Consolidation, 1887–1941: 1. The Balkan national monarchies
2. The dual monarchy: Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1914
3. The end of Ottoman rule in Europe: the Albanian and Macedonian questions
4. World War I
5. The first postwar decade
6. Balkan authoritarian regimes: the outbreak of World War II
Part II. World War II and the Postwar Developments: 7. The Balkan states in World War II
8. The immediate postwar readjustments: the Greek civil war and the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict
9. The Communist governments, 1950–1980
10. The Greek alternative
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]