Nationalism and Yugoslavia - Education, Yugoslavism and the Balkans before World War II

Informationen zum Autor Pieter Troch is currently Lecturer in History at the University of Ghent! where he completed his PhD. A unique study into the formation of nationalism in pre-Tito Yugoslavia. Zusammenfassung Created after World War I, 'Yugoslavia' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples - Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins - in addition to non-Slav minorities. The Great Powers and the country's intellectual and political elites believed that a coherent identity could be formed in which the different South Slav groups in the state could identify with a single Balkan Yugoslav identity. Pieter Troch draws on previously unpublished sources from the domain of education to show how the state's nationalities policy initially allowed for a flexible and inclusive Yugoslav nationhood, and how that system was slowly replaced with a more domineering and rigid 'top-down' nationalism during the dictatorship of King Alexander I - who banned political parties and coded a strongly politicised Yugoslav national identity. As Yugoslav society became increasingly split between the 'pro-Yugoslav' central regime and 'anti-Yugoslav' opposition, the seeds were sown for the failure of the Yugoslav idea.Nationalism and Yugoslavia provides a valuable new insight into the complexities of pre-war Yugoslavia.

Product details

• Authors: Pieter Troch, Troch Pieter
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781350153998
• ISBN: 978-1-350-15399-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, European History, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Nationalism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Political structure & processes, Terrorism, armed struggle, Yugoslavia, Diplomacy, Warfare and defence, Human rights, civil rights, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, Political structure and processes