Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth-Century Southeastern Europe

Product Description 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. Review "This ably edited volume dealing with twentieth-century southeastern Europe is most welcome. ...the project coorrdinators came to an agreement with their collaborators to foicus on nationalis, communism, fascism, liberalism, and religion. And indeed, all of these elements may be found between the covers of this volume, although the contributors were evidently given free rein. ...this volume offers insights into some neglected areas and is a most welcome addition to the literature on the history of East Central Europe."―American Historical Review"A truly unique and splendid addition to historical writing on southeastern Europe... Unique is the editors' insistence that each author include several translated primary sources. The diversity of sources is unrivaled by any documentary reader available to those of us who teach European, east European or Balkan history."―Slavic Review About the Author John R. Lampe is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Global Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Among his many publications, his most recent book is Balkans into Southeastern Europe, 1914–2014, A Century of War and Transition (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014).Mark Mazower is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. For Chapter 1, on interwar and wartime Romania generally, see the model survey volume by Keith Hitchins, Rumania, 1866-1947 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), especially Ch. 7, The Great Debate, pp. 292-334, on national ideology. On interwar identity politics, see Irina Livizeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation-Building and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995). A relevant work from recent Romanian scholarship is Z. Ornea, The Romanian Extreme Right, The Nineteen Thirties (N.Y.: Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1999).