The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953

Djilas, Aleksa

ISBN 10: 0674166981 / ISBN 13: 9780674166981

Published by Cambridge, MA; Harvard U. Press 1991, 1991

About this Item

1st Ed. Fine in like dust jacket. A study of the national question in Yugoslavia that traces its historical background & casts new light on the Yugoslav polity. SIGNED, inscribed & dated in year of publication by the Author on front endpaper. Yugoslavia, Communism, Signed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953
• Publisher: Cambridge, MA; Harvard U. Press 1991
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674166981
• ISBN 13: 9780674166981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.

About the Author

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