Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia\u2019s dissolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parts I and II explore shifting early modern divisions among three empires to the national movements and independent states that intruded with Great Power intervention on Ottoman and Habsburg territory in the nineteenth century. Part III traces a full decade of war centered on the First World War, with forced migrations rivalling the great loss of life. Part IV addresses the interwar promise and the later authoritarian politics of five newly independent states: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Separate attention is paid in Part V to the spread of European economic and social features that had begun in the nineteenth century. The Second World War again cost the region dearly in death and destruction and, as noted in Part VI, in interethnic violence. A final set of chapters in Part VII examines postwar and Cold War experiences that varied among the four Communist regimes as well as for non-Communist Greece. Lastly, a brief Epilogue takes the narrative past 1989 into the uncertainties that persist in Yugoslavia\u2019s successor states and its neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Providing fresh analysis from recent scholarship, the brief and accessible chapters of the Handbook address the general reader as well as students and scholars. For further study, each chapter includes a short list of selected readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introductory overview: premodern borders and modern controversies<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART I: The early modern Balkans as imperial borderlands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: the Balkans divided between three empires<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Ottoman Albania and Kosovo, Albanians and Serbs, sixteenth\u2013eighteenth centuries<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oliver Jens Schmitt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. The Venetian- Ottoman borderland in Dalmatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n Josip Vrande\u010di\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. The Phanariot regime in the Romanian Principalities, 1711\/ 1716\u20131821<\/p>\n\n\n\n Constantin Iordachi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Ottoman Bosnia and the Bosnian Muslims<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leyla Amzi- Erdogdular<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART II: Nation- and state- building, 1815\u20131914<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: nations and states between changing borders and the Great Powers in the \u201clong\u201d nineteenth century<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Nineteenth- century national identities in the Balkans: evolution and contention<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diana Mishkova<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Bulgaria from liberation to independence, 1878\u20131908<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roumen Daskalov<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Croatian political diversity and national development in the nineteenth century<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iskra Ivelji\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Montenegro as an independent state, 1878\u20131912<\/p>\n\n\n\n John D. Treadway<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. The agrarian question in Romania, 1744\u20131921<\/p>\n\n\n\n Constantin Iordachi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Slovene clerical politics, cooperatives and the language question to 1914<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gregor Kranjc<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Serbia\u2019s promise and problems, 1903\u20131914<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dubravka Stojanovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. The Macedonian question: asked and answered, 1878\u20131913<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keith Brown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Austria- Hungary and the Balkans<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roumiana Preshlenova<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Bosnia- Herzegovina under Austria- Hungary: from occupation to assassination, 1878\u20131914<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert J. Donia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART III: The Balkan Wars and the First World War, 1912\u20131923<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: armies and occupations, peace settlements and forced migrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. Bulgaria\u2019s wars and defeats, 1912\u20131919<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard Hall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. After empire: the First World War and the question of Albanian independence<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lejnar Mitrojorgji<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. Greece from national expansion to schism and catastrophe, 1912\u20131922<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefan Papaioannou<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. Habsburg South Slavs in peace and war, 1912\u20131918<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rok Stergar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. From Salonica to Belgrade: the emergence of Yugoslavia, 1917\u20131921<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dejan Djoki\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART IV: Southeastern European states and national politics, 1922\u20131939<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: the interwar decades from parliamentary struggles and international pressures to authoritarian regimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. Interwar ideas and images of nation, class, and gender<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 21. Interwar women\u2019s movements from the Little Entente to nationalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marijana Kardum<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 22. Interwar Greece: its generals, a republic, and the monarchy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Katerina Lagos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 23. Bulgaria from Stamboliiski and IMRO to Tsar Boris, 1919\u20131943<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roumen Daskalov<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 24. The legion \u201cArchangel Michael\u201d in Romania, 1927\u20131941<\/p>\n\n\n\n Constantin Iordachi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 25. Albania between Fan Noli, King Zog, and Italian hegemony<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert C. Austin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 26. The Croat Peasant Party: from Stjepan Radi\u0107 to Vladko Ma\u010dek<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark Biondich<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 27. Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia from revolt and resettlement to repression<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vladan Jovanovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 28. Yugoslav identity in the interwar period<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christian Axboe Nielsen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART V: Economies and societies, 1878\u20131939<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: challenges of change. Economic and population growth, social and cultural transformations up to World War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ulf Brunnbauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 29. Demographic growth: patterns and problems, 1878\u20131939<\/p>\n\n\n\n Siegfried Gruber<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 30. Financing economic growth and facing foreign debt, 1878\u20131939<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 31. Modern manufacture, state support, and foreign investment: comparing Balkan textile industries, 1878\u20131939<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jelena Rafajlovi \u0107 and John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 32. Neighbors into foreigners: the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1878\u20131941<\/p>\n\n\n\n Theodora Dragostinova<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 33. Southeastern European overseas migration and return from the late nineteenth century until the 1930s<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ulf Brunnbauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 34. Eugenics and race in Southeastern Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marius Turda<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 35. Sofia and Plovdiv between the world wars<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary Neuburger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART VI: From the Second World War to the establishment of the postwar regimes, 1939\u20131949<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: collaboration and occupation, resistance and civil war, regime change<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 36. The Albanian Communist Party from prewar origins to wartime resistance and power<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lejnar Mitrojorgji<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 37. Romania in the Second World War<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vladimir Solonari<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 38. The Usta\u0161a regime and the politics of terror in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941\u20131945<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rory Yeomans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 39. Partisans and Chetniks in occupied Yugoslavia<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heather Williams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 40. An oppressive liberation: Yugoslavia 1944\u20131948<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zoran Janjetovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 41. Greece from occupation and resistance to civil war, 1941\u20131949<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ioannis D. Stefanidis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART VII: Cold War division and European transition, 1949\u20131989<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overview: communist regimes and the Greek exception<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 42. The collectivization of agriculture in Southeastern Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arnd Bauerk\u00e4mper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 43. The Soviet factor in Bulgaria\u2019s foreign policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mihail Gruev<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 44. Enver Hoxha\u2019s Albania: Yugoslav, Soviet, and Chinese relations and ruptures<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elidor M\u00ebhilli<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 45. Ceau\u015fescu\u2019s National Communism as National Stalinism<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vladimir Tismaneanu and Marius Stan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 46. Yugoslavia\u2019s third way: the rise and fall of self-management<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vladimir Unkovski-Korica<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 47. Greece\u2019s Cold War: exceptionalism in Southeastern Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n Othon Anastasakis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 48. Yugoslavia\u2019s political endgame: Serbia and Slovenia in the 1980s<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jasna Dragovi\u0107-Soso<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 49. Changes of social structure from the late 1940s to the 1980s<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ulf Brunnbauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 50. Financing industrialization, 1949\u20131989: from foreign aid to foreign debt<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PART VIII: Epilogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Epilogue: Southeastern Europe after the Cold War<\/p>\n\n\n\n John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 51. Yugoslavia\u2019s wars of succession 1991\u20131999<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marie- Janine Calic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 52. From foreign intervention to European integration: Southeastern Europe since 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n