Ideologies and National Identities
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century.
A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's ideology and national identity.
Introduction by John R. Lampe
1. Robert C. Austin: The Myth of a Greater Albania. Albania, the Albanians and Unification
2. Mark Biondich: “We were defending the State”. The Political Right, Myth and Memory in Croatia, 1918-1991
3. Maja Brkljacic: Communism in Verse
4. Marko Bulatovic: Various Concepts of Yugoslavism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
5. Ildiko Erdei: Pioneer Organization and Reinvention of Childhood in Socialist Yugoslavia during the 1950ies
6. Gabriella Etmektsoglou: Transitional Justice. Lessons from Post-War Greece
7. James Frusetta: Divided Heroes
8. Rossitza Guentcheva: Listening to Socialism
9. Constantin Iordachi: The Charisma of the Archangel. Religion and Identity in the Ideology of The Legion of Archangel Michael in Interwar Romania
10. Dejan Jovic: Perceptions of the ‘Hostile Other’ in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991)
11. Predrag J. Markovic: In the Quest for One’s Own Place. Mental Mapping in the History and Culture of the Ex-Yugoslav Peoples
12. Sandra Prlenda: Young and Fervent. Catholic Lay Organizations and Political Mobilization in Yugoslavia in the 1930s
13. Andrew B. Wachtel: How to Use a Classic. Petar Petrovic Njegos in the 20th Century