1st Edition

Ideologies and National Identities The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe

Edited By Mark Mazower, John R. Lampe Copyright 2004
320 Pages
by Central European University Press

320 Pages
by Central European University Press

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and... Read more
Acknowledgements, Acknowledgements, CHAPTER I We Do Not Wish to Move a Finger, CHAPTER II The Myth of Democracy, CHAPTER III The Communists Take Over, CHAPTER IV The Merchants of the Kremlin, CHAPTER V Empire by Coercion, CHAPTER VI Containment, Rollback, Liberation or Inaction?, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Mark Mazower is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London.

John R. Lampe is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Global Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Among his many publications, his most recent book is Balkans into Southeastern Europe, 1914–2014, A Century of War and Transition (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014).