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BOOK COVER
HALF-TITLE
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
THE BALKANS: A ZONE OF TROUBLES
THE IMPACT OF GEOGRAPHY ON BALKAN HISTORY
THE BALKANS THROUGH OUTSIDE EYES
WHO IS TO BLAME?
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Chapter 1 PATTERNS OF EXTERNAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE BALKANS BEFORE 1914
OTTOMAN RULE
ORTHODOXY
RUSSIA CHALLENGES OTTOMAN POWER
NATIONALISM DISRUPTS THE EASTERN WORLD
THE SPARK: THE GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
GREECE AFTER LIBERATION
THE POWERS SPONSOR AND FRUSTRATE NATIONALITY MOVEMENTS
PAN-SLAVISM AND BULGARIAN REVOLTS
THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN
BALKAN INDEPENDENCE: THE DREAM AND THE REALITY
DEEPENING SLAV QUARRELS
THE ROAD TO WAR
NOTES
Chapter 2 SOUTHEAST EUROPE’S SEARCH FOR STABILITY 1914–1940
THE BALKANS AND THE GREAT WAR
THE VERSAILLES TREATIES
ASIA MINOR 1922: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
MINORITIES IN THE NEW STATES
CENTRALIZATION
SOCIAL EXCLUSION UNDERMINES NATIONAL UNITY
BULGARIA: NATIONALISM AND URBAN PRIORITIES CHALLENGED
ROMANIA: REFORM SABOTAGED FROM ABOVE
BALKAN COOPERATION
BULGARIA FINDS STABILITY
DARKENING SHADOWS OF WAR
WAR REACHES THE BALKANS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
Chapter 3 WHIRLWIND FROM THE EAST: THE ADVANCE OF COMMUNIST POWER, 1941–1948
THE AXIS AND THE BALKANS
BRITISH AND SOVIET INTERVENTION IN THE BALKANS 1941–43
THE BALKANS IN 1943: MILITARY OPTIONS
SPHERES OF INFLUENCE: 1944
GREECE AND BRITISH POLICY IN THE BALKANS
YALTA, FEBRUARY 1945
THE END OF THE WAR APPROACHES
THE SUBJUGATION OF BULGARIA
THE SUBJUGATION OF ROMANIA
RUSSIAN INTENTIONS AND YUGOSLAV RESISTANCE
CONCLUSION
Chapter 4 TYRANNY FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN: THE BALKANS 1949–1973
THE COLD WAR AND THE BALKANS
THE SOVIET COMMAND ECONOMY IMPOSED ON THE BALKANS
THE YEARS OF STALIN’S PURGES
YUGOSLAVIA: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
WESTERN MISCALCULATIONS IN GREECE AND CYPRUS
1956: EASTERN AND WESTERN IMPERIALISM AT WORK
NATIONAL STALINISM IN THE BALKANS
THE BULGARIAN EXCEPTION
TYRANNY AND INSTABILITY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
YUGOSLAVIA: THE PERILS OF COMMUNIST FEDERALISM
CONCLUSION
Chapter 5 NATIONALISM WITHOUT REFORM: THE BALKAN COMMUNIST STATES, 1974–1989
YUGOSLAVIA: THE COLLAPSE OF A DREAM
ROMANIA: THE WEST AND A TYRANT’S FOLLIES
INTELLECTUALS AND NATIONALISM
LIGHT FROM THE EAST
YUGOSLAVIA: COUNTDOWN TO TRAGEDY
CONCLUSION
NOTES
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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