{"product_id":"the-national-question-in-yugoslavia-origins-history-politics","title":"The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins  History  Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven before it collapsed into civil war  ethnic cleansing  and dissolution  Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic  a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and aspirations. In a brilliant analysis of this complex and sensitive national question  Ivo Banac provides a comprehensive introduction to Yugoslav political history. His book is a genetic study of the ideas  circumstances  and events that shaped the pattern of relations among the nationalities of Yugoslavia. It traces and analyzes the history and characteristics of South Slavic national ideologies  connects these trends with Yugoslavias flawed unification in 1918  and ends with the fatal adoption of the centralist system in 1921. Banac focuses on the first two and a half years in the history of the Kingdom of the Serbs  Croats  and Slovenes  because in his view this was the period that set the pattern for subsequent development of the national question. The issues that divided the South Slavs  and that still divide them today  took on definite form during that time  he maintains. Banac provides extensive treatment of all of Yugoslavias nationalities; his sections on the Montenegrins  Albanians  Macedonians  and Bosnian Muslims are unique in the literature. In this unbiased account  all of the principals and groups assume a tragic fascination. When published in 1984  The National Question in Yugoslavia was the first complete introduction to the cultural history of the South Slavic peoples and to the politics of Yugoslavia  and it remains a major contribution to the scholarship on modern European nationalism and the stability of multinational states.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964502569013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801494931","price":44.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801494932.jpg?v=1770463616","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-national-question-in-yugoslavia-origins-history-politics","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}