Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, 1944–1949

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In this study of Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, the author examines how their participation in the conflict, and the attempts by other groups to manipulate them, gave rise to modern issues that continue to affect politics in the region today. The Macedonian Question has confounded academics, politicians and the people of the Balkans since the nineteenth century. While the countries have resolved the territorial component of the Macedonian Question, the critical and confusing question surrounding the ethnic and linguistic identity of the people of the region continues to be the source of international debate. Part of the reason for this confusion is because the history of the Macedonian Question is shrouded in nationalist polemics. The role of the Macedonian Slavs involvement in the Greek Civil War is particularly contentious and embedded in nationalist polemics, which has impacted academic inquiry. This book argues that the preponderance of Macedonian Slavs within the communist forces during the Greek Civil War influenced the actions of all the major actors involved, and is a significant factor in shaping the modern Macedonian national identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-03
Mått:158 x 230 x 26 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498585040

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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James Horncastle is lecturer at Simon Fraser University.

Recensioner i media

Balkan history has been a laboratory for cottage industries of scholarly work on geopolitics, empire, ethnic conflict, and civil war. Dr. Horncastle’s book stands apart from this division of labor. His argument is a vibrant interjection into a rather stale collection of approaches that focus on specific elements of Balkan politics and war. The book deftly weaves together geopolitics, power-laden attempts at nation-building, and cultural considerations into a study of war that construes its subject as not simply determined by one level of analysis, but instead as a complex outcome of processes that crosscut them. It’s an important book for scholars of international relations and new military history alike, specifically because it is so well suited to starting a conversation across the divide that now marks them.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: An Ongoing Question?Chapter 2: Historical BackgroundChapter 3: The Second World War and the Development of the Macedonian National Movement within Yugoslavia, and the impact it had on GreeceChapter 4: The Macedonian Question and its impact on the DekemvrianaChapter 5: Towards a Civil War: The Macedonian Question in the Bulgarian-Greek-Yugoslav Interparty DynamicChapter 6: The Macedonian Question in the Greek Civil War, January 1947-June 1948Chapter 7: The Macedonian Question in the Greek Civil War after the Tito-Stalin split, July 1948-September 1949Chapter 8: Conclusion and Impacts