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The Macedonian Question Dimitris Livanios (Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University of Salonica)

The Macedonian Question By Dimitris Livanios (Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University of Salonica)

Summary

The Macedonian Question-the struggle over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities-is one of the most intractable issues in Balkan history. Dimitris Livanios explores the British dimension to the problem, from the outbreak of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split.

The Macedonian Question Summary

The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949 by Dimitris Livanios (Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University of Salonica)

The Macedonian Question - the struggle for control over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities - is one of the most intractable problems in modern Balkan history. In this lucid and persuasive study, Dimitris Livanios explores the British dimension to the Macedonian Question from the outbreak of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split. Investigating British policy towards the Bulgar-Yugoslav controversy over Macedonia, the author assesses the impact of British actions and strategy during this period, with a particular focus on wartime planning concerning the future of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and attempts to prevent Tito from creating a federation of the South Slavs, both during and after the war. Making extensive use of British archives, Livanios brings to light important documentary evidence to offer a fresh perspective on the emergence of the federal Macedonian unit within Tito's Yugoslavia, and on the efforts to create a functioning Macedonian national ideology.

The Macedonian Question Reviews

a fascinating opening of Pandora's box... bound to improve discussion of a perenially difficult and very complex issue. * James Pettifer, Times Literary Supplement *
This is a well researched, clearly argued and well written book. * Dejan Djokic, Anglo-Hellenic Review *
...the used amount of the Foreign Office documents is impressive... * Bisser Petrov, Etudes Balkaniques *
An up-to-date and nuanced synthesis, which avoids anachronisms. * Joseph Krulic, Balkanologie *
A subtle historian's study...a model monograph for those who want to understand the subject. * S.K. Pavlowitch, The Slavonic and East European Review *
offers a well-documented analysis of the British approach towards the Macedonian question ... a uniquepublication in the field

About Dimitris Livanios (Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University of Salonica)

Dimitris Livanios is Assistant Professor of History at the Aristotle University of Salonica, Greece.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ; Notes on Transliteration ; Abbreviations ; PART ONE: WEAVING THE NESSUS SHIRT, 1870-1939 ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Tampering with the 'Sleeping Dogs': Britain and Macedonia, 1878-1935 ; PART TWO: WARTIME, 1939-1945 ; 3. Chronicle of Failures Foretold: Britain and Bulgar-Yugoslav Relations, 1939-1943 ; 4. The Difficult Withdrawal: Britain and the Bulgarian Army in Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia, September-December, 1944 ; 5. Ghost Resurrected: Bulgar-Yugoslav Negotiations for Federation, and the British Response, 1944-1945 ; PART THREE: FROM WAR TO COLD WAR, 1945-1949 ; 6. Between Centralism and Separatism: The Emergence of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 1944-1948 ; 7. Britain and the Macedonian Question, 1945-1949 ; 8. A loveless, but necessary, entanglement ; Bibliography

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NPB9780199237685
9780199237685
0199237689
The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949 by Dimitris Livanios (Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University of Salonica)
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Oxford University Press
2008-04-17
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