A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples

by Fred Singleton

• ISBN13: 9780521274852
• ISBN10: 0521274850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-04-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

There are few countries in Europe which contain within an area as small as the British Isles such a variety of natural environments and cultures as Yugoslavia. This book provides a survey of the history of the South Slav peoples who came together at the end of the First World War to form the first Yugoslav kingdom, and who emerged from the chaos of the Second World War to become citizens of a socialist federal republic, led by the Communist Party under the leadership of Marshal Tito. Beginning in Roman times, the book traces the rise and fall of the medieval Slav principalities, the dominance of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, the proclamation of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, the disastrous effects of the German occupation and the creation of a new socialist order under President Tito.

Table of Contents

List of tables

List of maps

Preface

Guide to pronunciation

1. The lands of the South Slavs

2. The early Slav settlers

3. The early Slav kingdoms

4. The South Slavs under foreign rule

5. The development of independence

6. The First World War

7. The kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

8. The kingdom of Yugoslavia

9. Yugoslavia and the Second World War

10. The transition to socialism

11. The beginnings of self-management

12. The 1960s - a decade of reform

13. Tito's last ten years

14. Yugoslavia after Tito

Bibliography

Index.