Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country

by John R. Lampe

• ISBN13: 9780521774017
• ISBN10: 0521774012
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Yugoslavia as History is the first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history. This new edition of John Lampe's accessible and authoritative history devotes a full new chapter to the tragic ethnic wars that have followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and most recently in Kosovo. John Lampe concentrates on the connection, real and imagined, between these conflicts and the experience of the successor states, the two Yugoslavias and their predecessors.

Author Biography

John Lampe is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park

Table of Contents

List of Plates	x
List of maps	xi
List of tables	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Preface to the Second edition	xvii
Note on pronunciation	xx
Introduction. The search for viability	1	(8)
Empires and fragmented borderlands, 800--1800	9	(30)
Mountains first, water last	10	(4)
Brief native states, long remembered	14	(6)
Varieties of Ottoman rule	20	(7)
Varieties of Habsburg rule	27	(6)
Exceptions to imperial fragmentation	33	(6)
Unifying aspirations and rural resistance, 1804--1903	39	(32)
From Illyrian provinces to Yugoslav idea, 1806--1860	41	(5)
Serbia as a nineteenth-century nation-state	46	(11)
Montenegro as mini-state	57	(1)
Croatian and South Slav ideas in the Habsburg lands, 1860--1900	58	(7)
Bosnia's transition from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian rule	65	(4)
Dalmatia and Slovenia as Yugoslav outposts	69	(2)
New Divisions, Yugoslav ties, and Balkan Wars, 1903--1914	71	(30)
Fragmented growth and party politics in the Habsburg lands	75	(8)
Serbia's rising reputation and the Bosnian crisis of 1908	83	(8)
Balkan Wars and the new Yugoslav prospects, 1912--1914	91	(10)
The First World War and the first Yugoslavia, 1914--1921	101	(28)
Serbia and the Yugoslav Committee, 1914--1917	102	(4)
Wartime regimes from Slovenia to Serbia	106	(4)
National Council in Zagreb and unification in Belgrade	110	(3)
Western policy and border disputes	113	(4)
Economic obstacles to political unification	117	(4)
Divisive elections for unitary constitution	121	(8)
Parliamentary kingdom, 1921--1928	129	(34)
Prewar politicians, new parties, and the Vidovdan framework, 1921--1926	130	(15)
Cultural connections and economic disjunctures	145	(9)
Hostile neighbors and distant allies	154	(4)
Fatal intersections, 1927--1928	158	(5)
Authoritarian kingdom, 1929--1941	163	(38)
Royal dictatorship, 1929--1934	164	(12)
Stojadinovic and the royal regency, 1935--1938	176	(10)
Balance sheet for the first Yugoslavia, 1921--1939	186	(8)
From Serb-Croat Sporazum to Tripartite Pact, 1939--1941	194	(7)
World war and civil war, 1941--1945	201	(32)
The destruction of the first Yugoslavia	201	(9)
The Independent State of Croatia (NDH), occupation regimes, and active opposition, 1941--1942	210	(8)
Communist advantages, 1943--1944	218	(8)
Consolidating Communist power, 1945	226	(7)
Founding the second Yugoslavia, 1946--1953	233	(32)
Consolidating power under the 1946 constitution	234	(7)
Setbacks and the Tito-Stalin split, 1947--1949	241	(14)
First steps down the Yugoslav road	255	(10)
Tito's Yugoslavia ascending, 1954--1967	265	(34)
Balancing between East and West	267	(9)
Western markets and self-managed enterprises, 1954--1962	276	(8)
Market reform and the fall of Rankovic	284	(15)
Tito's Yugoslavia descending, 1968--1988	299	(33)
Opposition comes into the open, 1968--1969	300	(5)
From the Croatian crisis to the 1974 constitution	305	(10)
From half-market to contractual economy	315	(6)
Foreign policy and the debt crisis, 1979--1985	321	(6)
The failure of federal leadership and economic retreat, 1986--1988	327	(5)
Ethnic politics and the end of Yugoslavia	332	(33)
Social strains and regional relations	333	(12)
New leaders and new politics	345	(7)
Fatal intersections, 1989--1991	352	(13)
Ethnic wars and successor states, 1991--1999	365	(51)
Wars for succession, 1991--1995	369	(12)
Wartime politics in Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro	381	(10)
Postwar politics in Slovenia and Macedonia	391	(6)
Successor economies and Yugoslavia's legacy	397	(9)
Kosovo/Kosova: war after all	406	(10)
Notes	416	(42)
Selected further reading (in English and German)	458	(10)
Index	468