Ιστορία των Βαλκανίων, ΙΙ: 20ός αιώνας

by Barbara Jelavich, Σταυρούλα Γιαννοπούλου (Translator), Βάσιας Τσοκόπουλος (Editor)

Αυτός ο τόμος καλύπτει τα γεγονότα της ιστορίας των μεγάλων Βαλκανικών κρατών της Αλβανίας, Βουλγαρίας, Κροατίας, Ελλάδας, Ρουμανίας, Σερβίας, και Σλοβενίας κατά τον 18ο και 19ο αιώνα. Στην απαρχή της περιόδου οι λαοί αυτοί ζούσαν είτε υπό Οθωμανική κυριαρχία είτε υπό την Αυτοκρατορία των Αψβούργων. Περιγράφονται οι διαφορετικές συνθήκες που επικρατούσαν στις δύο αυτές αυτοκρατορίες και η ως εκ τούτου διαφορετική εμπειρία των λαών που βρίσκονται υπό την κυριαρχία τους. Ιδιαίτερη έμφαση δίνεται στα εθνικά κινήματα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των προγραμμάτων τους και της επαναστατικής τους δράσης. (. . .) Το βιβλίο αυτό, συνεπώς, καλύπτει τα εθνικά κινήματα, τις επιτυχίες και αποτυχίες τους μέχρι το 1900, και το ρόλο των κινημάτων αυτών στις διεθνείς σχέσεις του σήμερα.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, European History

707 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Barbara Jelavich was a professor of history at Indiana University and an expert on the diplomatic histories of the Russian and Habsburg monarchies, the diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Balkans.

Reviews

[Славея Котова · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for an introduction to the subject.

[Knigoqdec · Rating 4 out of 5]

Жалко, че свършва преди една от основните теми, с които трябва да се запозная... Иначе продължава в същия стил на любопитен разказ за предимно изучаващи история в университета. Липсва хронология, която би била по-удобна, най-малкото за справка, но това е простимо. Искаше ми се нещо по-дълго относно разпада на Югославия, нооо... нямах късмет... Е, все пак първото издание е от 2003-та, а събитията, които трябва да проуча, продължават до 2008-ма, затова няма какво да се възмущавам.

[Vanya]

Приключих най-болезнената курсова. Поне 5, Мими, моля.

[Yasin Özdemir · Rating 4 out of 5]

ilk cildi kadar ikinci cildi de çok hoş

[Mihai Zodian · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second volume of the History of the Balkans was published in 1983. I recommend it to the reader interested in this region who wants to acquire a background knowledge of its politics. This volume covers the 20th century, up to the 1980s, so it`s limited to a period up to the Cold War. It offers a range of information about the process of national state formation and consolidation, of modern wars and of the rivalry between the East and the West, in South-East Europe.

Barbara Jelavich studied countries like Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania or Romania, alongside wide political organizations like the former empires. The two major themes are the consecration of the nation-states and the interaction with the Great Powers, who are the decisive actors when general issues are concerned. They don't control everything and often local elites maneuver them or even openly defy their interests. History of the Balkans is also a story of economic and social modernization.

Thus after 1900, the nation-state gradually became the major form of political organization in this region. The reader can grasp its strong points and its pitfalls. With the decline of the traditional empires, the rivalries between the new actors took their place here, a similar process to other places in Europe and Barbara Jelavich is careful to compare and offer a balanced judgement in her History of the Balkans. A succession of wars and Great Power intervention follows, but a moderate development is also achieved.

It`s difficult to imagine today, but after 1945, Yugoslavia loomed large in regional politics. Autonomous of Stalin, it supported the civil war in Greece, it subordinated Albania and it dreamed of a regional federation. The conflict with Moscow made Belgrade into a partner of US and NATO, who was able to survive Soviet and other Eastern European leaders' hostility. History of the Balkans is nuanced on these issues, and the reader should be aware that Barbara Jelavich's book was published in 1983, well before Yugoslavia`s disintegration became an issue.

There are some limits: modern Turkey is rarely mentioned and the story is somehow dated. History of the Balkans compensated this with an interpretation that makes justice for its subjects. Often maligned, the South-East European states are no better or worse than similar actors in other regions, especially the developed part of Europe. This approach makes Barbara Jelavich`s book a useful read.

[Scott Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a book I had in college, and I did read it then (parts of it). Still had it one the shelf and decided to re-read it. This came on the heels of reading the work about the 18-19th century. For the 20th century, the reader needs to know that this book stops in 1980, thus, you will need to find other places to read about the fall of the Eastern bloc, the dead of Tito and the breakup of Yugoslavia, followed by the various wars of the 1990s in the area, the ascension of nations into NATO and how the region moved into the 20th century. The history up until 1980 is okay, but it seems like after 1945, it is more of a survey. The area is just incredibly chaotic, as it was the center of external conflicts, all mixed in with internal strife...made for a not-boring part of the world.

Two volumes will not explain the entirety of the Balkans. I think it is better to combine both, but you have to know the limitations of the work, especially since it doesn’t cover the critical 1980-1999 timeframe. They will at least give you some good historical overviews. The writing is academic, but there are not a lot of footnotes/endnotes. Perhaps it will help for a research paper, but not really recreational reading.

[Nora Rawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fir a book covering so many countries over such tumultuous and extremely different periods, this book was somehow a breeze to read. The main complaint could be that it glosses over the various sectarian violences of the period--never mentioning the Armenian genocide despite a brief reference to Turkey's Armenian problem, hardly dealing except briefly with the Nazi death squads recruited from the Balkans, etc. Yet the tensions bubbling below the surface of Yugoslavia that would (after the book's publication) explode into violence are clearly there, and the movement of nationalist movements is shown from its earliest stages as the Ottoman Empire deteriorated. It was also fascinating to read a book written before the collapse of communism in the region; her treatment of it is surprisingly even-handed and clear.

[Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

старинарница балкан

[Άννα Μωραΐτη · Rating 3 out of 5]

Η μετάφραση και η επιμέλεια στα ελληνικά αρκετά κακή!