This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern
Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the
Serbian state’s revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth
century, under the rebel leaders Karađorđe Petrović and Miloš
Obrenović; its turbulent history of wars, uprisings and dynastic
rivalries; the triumph of Yugoslav unification in 1918; and the
catastrophe of occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941. It shows how the
birth of the modern nation-state involved the creation of a new
elite–dynasty, army and bureaucracy–whose rule over the
peasantry generated a popular resistance that would ultimately take
form in Nikola Pašić’s mighty People’s Radical Party. The
resulting struggle between elitist Westernisers and pro- Russian
populists became entwined with the struggle for pan-Serb and
Yugoslav liberation and unification. These causes came together
with the Sarajevo assassination of 1914, which triggered the First
World War. Existing histories of the Yugoslav kingdom that emerged
from that war focus on the national conflict between Serbs, Croats,
Bosnian Muslims and others, but Marko Attila Hoare challenges this
narrative. He shows how the new kingdom’s politics continued to
be dominated by the ongoing internal Serbian power struggle,
bringing renewed disaster to Yugoslavia and its peoples.
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