Yugoslavia, from its creation to its bloody split-up. This volume explores historical, political, social, diplomatic, and economic aspects of the Yugoslav idea--Yugoslavism--between the creation of the nation in 1918 and its dissolution in the early 1990s. The key theme that emerges is that Yugoslavism was a fluid concept, understood differently at different times by various leaders, social groups, and the nationalities that comprised Yugoslavia. There never was a single definition of who and what was (or was not) Yugoslav, and this contributed to the ultimate failure of the idea and the...

Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian, British and American archives. It plac