History of the Balkans

by Barbara Jelavich

• ISBN13: 9780521274593
• ISBN10: 0521274591
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-07-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of maps	viii
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I. WAR AND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION, 1887--1941
The Balkan national monarchies	13	(38)
Economic developments	15	(8)
Romania	23	(5)
Serbia	28	(6)
Montenegro	34	(3)
Bulgaria	37	(3)
Greece	40	(5)
The ``Europeanization'' of Balkan life	45	(6)
The Dual Monarchy: Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1914	51	(28)
The national problem in Austria	53	(6)
Bosnia-Hercegovina	59	(4)
The Kingdom of Hungary	63	(14)
Conclusion: Austria-Hungary under the Ausgleich	77	(2)
The end of Ottoman rule in Europe: the Albanian and Macedonian questions	79	(27)
The Ottoman Empire	79	(5)
The Albanian national movement	84	(5)
Macedonia	89	(6)
The Balkan Wars, 1912, 1913	95	(5)
Albanian independence	100	(4)
The Ottoman legacy	104	(2)
World War I	106	(28)
Sarajevo	106	(8)
The war	114	(7)
The peace settlements	121	(5)
The fall of the Ottoman Empire: the Turkish Republic	126	(7)
Conclusion	133	(1)
The first postwar decade	134	(58)
Immediate postwar problems	134	(9)
Problems of national organization and internal development	143	(41)
The Great Depression	184	(1)
Traditional peasant life	185	(6)
Conclusion	191	(1)
Balkan authoritarian regimes: the outbreak of World War II	192	(55)
The rise of Soviet and German influence	192	(7)
The establishment of the Balkan authoritarian regimes	199	(13)
Inter-Balkan relations	212	(1)
The Axis advance: the conquest of Albania	213	(8)
The outbreak of the war: the period of Balkan neutrality	221	(17)
Conclusion	238	(9)
PART II. WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR DEVELOPMENTS
The Balkan states in World War II	247	(54)
The military background	247	(3)
Balkan participation in the war	250	(34)
The inter-Allied negotiations on the Balkans	284	(3)
The establishment of the Communist regimes	287	(11)
Partisan warfare	298	(3)
The immediate postwar readjustments: the Greek civil war and the Yugoslav--Soviet conflict	301	(35)
The Allied coalition breaks	301	(5)
The Greek civil war, 1946--1949	306	(8)
The Yugoslav developments	314	(15)
The repercussions in the Soviet bloc	329	(2)
Albania changes direction	331	(2)
The Cold War	333	(3)
The Communist governments, 1950--1980	336	(70)
Internal developments	336	(16)
Foreign policy	352	(12)
Contrasting Communist regimes: Bulgaria, Romania, Albania	364	(20)
The Yugoslav variant	384	(20)
Conclusion	404	(2)
The Greek alternative	406	(33)
Economic problems: American intervention	406	(2)
Papagos and Karamanlis: Greek governments to 1963	408	(5)
The Cyprus dispute	413	(3)
Social and economic changes	416	(2)
The Papandreou era	418	(8)
The military dictatorship	426	(7)
Karamanlis restored	433	(3)
Andreas Papandreou: the elections of October 1981	436	(1)
Conclusion	437	(2)
Conclusion	439	(8)
Bibliography	447	(14)
Index	461