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Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia explores the
interaction between religion, nationalism, and political modernity
in the first half of the 20th century, taking the case of the
Serbian Orthodox Church as an example. This book historicizes the
widely held assumption that the bond between religion and
nationalism in the Balkans is a natural one or that this bond has
been historically inevitable. It tells a complex story of how East
Orthodox Christianity came to be at the core of one version of
Serbian nationalism by bringing together the themes of religion,
nationalism, politics, state-building, secularization, and
modernity. Maria Falina reconstructs how the ideological fusion
between Serbian nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity was
forged. The analysis emphasizes ideas and ideologies through a
close reading of public discourses and historical narratives while
paying attention to individual actors and their personal histories.
The book argues that the particular political vision of the Serbian
Orthodox Church emerged in reaction to and in interaction with the
challenges posed by political modernity that were not unique to
Yugoslavia. These included establishing the modern multinational
and multi-religious state, the fear of secularization, and the rise
of communism and fascism. Religion and Politics in Interwar
Yugoslavia makes an important contribution to understanding the
history of interwar Yugoslavia, 20th-century Europe, and the ties
between religion and nationalism.
In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and
understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book
addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Eastern and
Central Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has
increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and
civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at
the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and,
engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the
Western front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war
in the East. Analysing soldiers' letters and diaries to discover
the nature and impact of displacement and refugee status on memory,
this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in
these two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional
comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was
the war in the East wholly 'other'? Were soldiers in this region as
alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as citizens
and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian and
military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these
identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of
war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and
displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did
soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the
traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the
post-war era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this
volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as
experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a
synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers,
covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the
conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision
especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of
political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these
cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit
some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political
thought, and modernity as such. The present volume is a sequel to
Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'.
It begins with the end of the Great War, depicting the colorful
intellectual landscape of the interwar period and the increasing
political and ideological radicalization culminating in the Second
World War. Taking the war experience both as a breaking point but
in many ways also a transmitter of previous intellectual
traditions, it maps the intellectual paradigms and debates of the
immediate postwar years, marked by a negotiation between the
democratic and communist agendas, as well as the subsequent
processes of political and cultural Stalinization. Subsequently,
the post-Stalinist period is analyzed with a special focus on the
various attempts of de-Stalinization and the rise of revisionist
Marxism and other critical projects culminating in the
carnivalesque but also extremely dramatic year of 1968. This volume
is followed by Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short
Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018.
In the English language, World War I has largely been analysed and
understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book
addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Central and
Eastern Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has
increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and
civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at
the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and,
engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the
Western Front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war
in the East. Analysing soldiers’ letters and diaries to discover
the nature and impact of displacement and refugeedom on memory,
this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in
the two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional
comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was
the war in the East wholly `other’? Were soldiers in this region
as alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as
citizens and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian
and military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these
identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of
war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and
displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did
soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the
traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the
postwar era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this
volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as
experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.
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