Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903-1945

ISBN-13: 9781107678750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 297 str.

John Paul Newman

Opis

A study of the impact of the Great War on state and society in Yugoslavia during the interwar period.

Recenzje

'This succinctly written volume will be a welcome read to both experienced scholars of former Yugoslavia as well as those interested more broadly in military, or rather, post-war history.' Vjeran Pavlaković, Southeastern Europe

Spis treści

Introduction: liberation and unification; Part I. Ultima Ratio Regnum, the Coming of Alexander's Dictatorship: 1. All the king's men: civil-military relations in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1903–1921; 2. A warriors' caste: veteran and patriotic associations against the state; 3. Resurrecting Lazar: modernization, medievalization and the Chetniks in the 'classical south'; Part II. In the Shadow of War: 4. In extremis: death throes and birth pains in the Habsburg south Slav lands; 5. Refractions of the Habsburg war: ongoing conflicts and contested commemorations; 6. No man's land: the invalid and volunteer questions; Part III. Re-mobilization: 7. Authoritarianism and new war, 1929–1941; 8. 'The gale of the world', 1941–1945; Conclusion: brotherhood and unity; Bibliography; Index.