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The National Question in Yugoslavia - Origins, History, Politics (Paperback, New edition)
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The National Question in Yugoslavia - Origins, History, Politics (Paperback, New edition)
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Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and
dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled
multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or
even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged
repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching
political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities
and aspirations.In a brilliant analysis of this complex and
sensitive national question, Ivo Banac provides a comprehensive
introduction to Yugoslav political history. His book is a genetic
study of the ideas, circumstances, and events that shaped the
pattern of relations among the nationalities of Yugoslavia. It
traces and analyzes the history and characteristics of South Slavic
national ideologies, connects these trends with Yugoslavia's flawed
unification in 1918, and ends with the fatal adoption of the
centralist system in 1921. Banac focuses on the first two and a
half years in the history of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and
Slovenes, because in his view this was the period that set the
pattern for subsequent development of the national question. The
issues that divided the South Slavs, and that still divide them
today, took on definite form during that time, he maintains. Banac
provides extensive treatment of all of Yugoslavia's nationalities;
his sections on the Montenegrins, Albanians, Macedonians, and
Bosnian Muslims are unique in the literature. In this unbiased
account, all of the principals and groups assume a tragic
fascination.When published in 1984, The National Question in
Yugoslavia was the first complete introduction to the cultural
history of the South Slavic peoples and to the politics of
Yugoslavia, and it remains a major contribution to the scholarship
on modern European nationalism and the stability of multinational
states.
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