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The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953 (Russian Research Center Studies) - Hardcover

Djilas, Aleksa

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Synopsis

Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.

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About the Author

Aleksa Djilas was Research Associate, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, from 1987 to 1994.

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Djilas has done an outstanding job of integrating the tragic history of pre-World War II Yugoslavia with postwar Commu nist policy. This timely book explains why national consciousness became the pervasive fact of pre-Communist Yugoslavia and exposes the chimera that na tional difference "would inevitably be erased by socialism, progress, and com munism." Some readers will object to Djilas's emphasis on the effects of ex tremist Croatian nationalism, yet this work probably remains the best English complement to Ivo Banac's magisterial The National Question in Yugoslavia (Cornell Univ. Pr., 1984). Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
-Zachary T. Irwin, Penn State-Erie
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ISBN 10:  067416699X ISBN 13:  9780674166998
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996
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