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Description for Yugoslavia
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Yugoslavia: A Concise History surveys the whole turbulent course of the country's history, in the context of the struggles between great powers for control of the Balkans. Torn apart by nationalist rivalries, the first Yugoslavia lapsed into paralysis and dictatorship. Axis occupation in 1941 unleashed a murderous civil war, in which the Communist Party emerged victorious. Tito's Yugoslavia appeared to the world as a peaceful, multi-national federation, but in the end disintegrated amid barbarism unknown in Europe for half a century. This revised and fully updated edition explains why, and takes the events up to the arrest of Milosevic in ... Read more
Yugoslavia: A Concise History surveys the whole turbulent course of the country's history, in the context of the struggles between great powers for control of the Balkans. Torn apart by nationalist rivalries, the first Yugoslavia lapsed into paralysis and dictatorship. Axis occupation in 1941 unleashed a murderous civil war, in which the Communist Party emerged victorious. Tito's Yugoslavia appeared to the world as a peaceful, multi-national federation, but in the end disintegrated amid barbarism unknown in Europe for half a century. This revised and fully updated edition explains why, and takes the events up to the arrest of Milosevic in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403915665
SKU
V9781403915665
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Leslie Benson
LESLIE BENSON is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at University College Northampton.
Reviews for Yugoslavia
'Energetically written and thoroughly researched, his book provides an excellent overview of the history of this ill-fated country for the general reader. His challenges to historiographical common wisdom will also make scholars sit up and take notice'. - John Allcock, Bradford University '[This] easily digestible and highly informative survey traces Yugoslav history from the birth of the ... Read more