Ideologies and national identities : the case of twentieth-century Southeastern Europe / / edited by John R. Lampe and Mark Mazower.

• Author: John Lampe, Mark Mazower
• TeilnehmendeR: Lampe, John R.; Mazower, Mark.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's ideology and national identity.

Table of Contents

Charisma, religion, and ideology : Romania's interwar Legion of the Archangel Michael / Constantin Iordachi -- "We were defending the state" : nationalism, myth, and memory in twentieth-century Croatia / Mark Biondich -- Young, religious, and radical : the Croat Catholic youth organizations, 1922-1945 / Sandra Prlenda -- Common heroes, divided claims : IMRO between Macedonia and Bulgaria / James Frusetta -- How to use a classic : Petar Petrović Njegoš in the twentieth century / Andrew B. Wachtel -- "The happy child" as an icon of socialist transformation : Yugoslavia's pioneer organization / Ildiko Erdei -- Popular culture and communist ideology : folk epics in Tito's Yugoslavia / Maja Brkljačić -- Sounds and noise in socialist Bulgaria / Rossitza Guentcheva -- Greater Albania : the Albanian state and the question of Kosovo, 1912-2001 / Robert C. Austin -- Struggling with Yugoslavism : dilemmas of interwar Serb political thought / Marko Bulatović -- Communist Yugoslavia and its "others" / Dejan Jović.