The bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the region's wider struggles with a post-Communist transition suggest continuing Balkan burdens for the peoples and states of Southeastern Europe. Ethnic conflict, disputed borders, forced migration and foreign intervention had already scarred the countries from Romania south to Greece during the decades surrounding the two world wars. John Lampe disputes this pejoratively Balkan background. He traces the region's traumatic twentieth-century through wars and postwar transitions that adopted or confronted European ideologies, institutions and interventions.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Transitions at the Turn of Two Centuries
Balkan States and Borderlands on the Eve of War
Balkan Wars, First World War, and the Postwar Settlements
Struggling with Liberal and National Transitions in the 1920s
Illiberal Directions During the Depression Decade
Second World War, Civil War, and the Communist Advantage
Communist and Cold War Transitions, 1945-1960
False Starts and Failed Reforms, 1960-1989
War and Transition since 1989
Table of contents:
Introduction: Transitions at the Turn of Two Centuries
Balkan States and Borderlands on the Eve of War
Balkan Wars, First World War, and the Postwar Settlements
Struggling with Liberal and National Transitions in the 1920s
Illiberal Directions During the Depression Decade
Second World War, Civil War, and the Communist Advantage
Communist and Cold War Transitions, 1945-1960
False Starts and Failed Reforms, 1960-1989
War and Transition since 1989