Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903–1945
Cambridge University Press, 6/25/2015
EAN 9781107070769, ISBN10: 1107070767
Hardcover, 296 pages, 22.9 x 15 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
The Yugoslav state of the interwar period was a child of the Great European War. Its borders were superimposed onto a topography of conflict and killing, for it housed many war veterans who had served or fought in opposing armies (those of the Central Powers and the Entente) during the war. These veterans had been adversaries but after 1918 became fellow subjects of a single state, yet in many cases they carried into peace the divisions of the war years. John Paul Newman tells their story, showing how the South Slav state was unable to escape out of the shadow cast by the First World War. Newman reveals how the deep fracture left by war cut across the fragile states of 'New Europe' in the interwar period, worsening their many political and social problems, and bringing the region into a new conflict at the end of the interwar period.
Introduction
liberation and unification
Part I. Ultima Ratio Regnum, the Coming of Alexander's Dictatorship
1. All the king's men
civil-military relations in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1903–1921
2. A warriors' caste
veteran and patriotic associations against the state
3. Resurrecting Lazar
modernization, medievalization and the Chetniks in the 'classical south'
Part II. In the Shadow of War
4. In extremis
death throes and birth pains in the Habsburg south Slav lands
5. Refractions of the Habsburg war
ongoing conflicts and contested commemorations
6. No man's land
the invalid and volunteer questions
Part III. Re-mobilization
7. Authoritarianism and new war, 1929–1941
8. 'The gale of the world', 1941–1945
Conclusion
brotherhood and unity
Bibliography
Index.