History of the Balkans: Volume 2The major emphasis of Volume 1 is on the movements for national sovereignty, the revolutionary activity associated with them, and the place of these events in the international relations of the day for the major nationalities of the Balkan region. Volume 2 deals primarily with events in the 20th century. A large portion of this volume is devoted to wartime experiences, the establishment of postwar regimes, and their internal development to 1980. |
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Contents
The Balkan national monarchies | 13 |
Economic developments | 15 |
Romania | 23 |
Serbia | 28 |
Montenegro | 34 |
Bulgaria | 37 |
Greece | 40 |
The Europeanization of Balkan life | 45 |
the conquest of Albania | 213 |
the period of Balkan neutrality | 221 |
Conclusion | 238 |
The Balkan states in World War II | 247 |
Balkan participation in the war | 250 |
The interAllied negotiations on the Balkans | 284 |
The establishment of the Communist regimes | 287 |
Partisan warfare | 298 |
The Dual Monarchy AustriaHungary from 1867 to 1914 | 51 |
The national problem in Austria | 53 |
BosniaHercegovina | 59 |
The Kingdom of Hungary | 63 |
AustriaHungary under the Ausgleich | 77 |
The end of Ottoman rule in Europe the Albanian and Macedonian questions | 79 |
The Albanian national movement | 84 |
Macedonia | 89 |
The Balkan Wars 1912 1913 | 95 |
Albanian independence | 100 |
The Ottoman legacy | 104 |
World War I | 106 |
The war | 114 |
The peace settlements | 121 |
the Turkish Republic | 126 |
Conclusion | 133 |
The first postwar decade | 134 |
Problems of national organization and internal development | 143 |
The Great Depression | 184 |
Traditional peasant life | 185 |
Conclusion | 191 |
Balkan authoritarian regimes the outbreak of World War II | 192 |
The establishment of the Balkan authoritarian regimes | 199 |
InterBalkan relations | 212 |
The immediate postwar readjustments the Greek civil war and the YugoslavSoviet conflict | 301 |
The Greek civil war 19461949 | 306 |
The Yugoslav developments | 314 |
The repercussions in the Soviet bloc | 329 |
Albania changes direction | 331 |
The Cold War | 333 |
The Communist governments 19501980 | 336 |
Foreign policy | 352 |
Bulgaria Romania Albania | 364 |
The Yugoslav variant | 384 |
Conclusion | 404 |
The Greek alternative | 406 |
Greek governments to 1963 | 408 |
The Cyprus dispute | 413 |
Social and economic changes | 416 |
The Papndreou era | 418 |
The military dictatorship | 426 |
Karamanlis restored | 433 |
the elections of Octover 1981 | 436 |
Conclusion | 437 |
Conclusion | 439 |
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