Battling over the Balkans: Historiographical Questions and Controversies

Dedication
Table of Contents
John R. Lampe and Constantin Iordachi: “Beyond Stereotypes: Recent Trends in the Historiography on the Balkans”
1 The Ottoman Balkans and Nation-Building
	Roumiana Preshlenova: “Bulgarian Debates on the Ottoman Political Legacy”
		Nadya Danova, The Ottoman Time in the Bulgarian National Discourse in the 19th and 20th Centuries
		Roumen Daskalov, “Problematizing the Revival”
		Aleksandǔr Vezenkov, “Not So Apparent Truths: The ‘Bulgarian Revival’as a Separate Era”
		Iliya Todev, “The Exarchate—The Real Establishment of the Modern Bulgarian Statehood?”
		Iliya Todev, “Marin Drinov’s View on the Bulgarian National Revival”
	Vangelis Kechriotis, “Greek Historiography and the Role of the Orthodox Church”
		Elli Skopetea, The Twilight of the East: Images from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
		Sia Anagnostopoulou, “The Young Turk Revolution: The New ‘Ottoman’ Framework of Authority: 1908–1914”
		Paraskevas Konortas, Ottoman Views of the Ecumenical Patriarchate: Berats for the Prelates of the Great Church 17th–Early 20th Centuries
		Eleni Gara, “Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire in Early Modern Times: Historiographical Approaches”
		Andreas Lyberatos, Economy, Politics and National Ideology: The Shaping of National Parties in Philippoupolis (Plovdiv) of the 19th Century
2 Struggling with State-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia
	Vjeran Pavlaković, Recent Croatian Historiography on the Interwar Period
		Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević, “Economic Circumstances on Croatian Territory between the Two World Wars”
		Ivo Goldstein, Croatia 1918–2008 (I)
		Aleksandar Jakir, “Several Aspects in the Formation of National Identity in Dalmatia between the Two World Wars”
	Vladan Jovanović, Recent Serbian Historiographyon the Interwar Period
		Ivana Dobrivojević, Governmental Repression during King Alexander’s Dictatorship, 1929–1935
		Zoran Janjetović, “The Influence of the Serbian Factor on the Position of National Minorities in Yugoslavia during the Interwar Period”
		Sofija Božić, “Serbs in Croatia, Hegemonists, or the Oppressed? The Case of Osijek Serbs (1918–1924)”
3 Irregular Violence: Bandits, Guerillas, and Militias
	James Frusetta and Stefan Sotiris Papaioannou, Irregular Violence: Bandits, Guerillas, and Militias in Southeastern European Historiography
		Paramilitaries versus Armies: Bulgaria, Greece, and Yugoslavia
			Tasos Kostopoulos, War and Ethnic Cleansing: The Forgotten Side of a Decade-Long National Campaign, 1912–1922
			Dmitar Tasić, War After the War: The Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Kosovo and Metohia and in Macedonia, 1918–1920
			Vladan Jovanović, The Yugoslav State and Southern Serbia, 1918–1929. Macedonia, Sanjak, Kosovo, and Metohija in the Kingdom of SCS
			Veselin Yanchev, Army, Public Order and Internal Security: The Bulgarian Experience 1878–1912
		Fascism in the Interwar Balkans
			Mario Jareb, The Ustasha-Homeguard Movement
			Ivo Goldstein, Croatia 1918–2008 (II)
			Nikolai Poppetrov, Fascism in Bulgaria: Development and Activities
			Constantin Iordachi, Charisma, Politics and Violence: The Legion of the “Archangel Michael” in Inter-war Romania
4 European Influence and Reaction: Economics and Culture
	Roumiana Preshlenova and John R. Lampe, The Retreat from Economic History
		Accommodating the Interwar European Economic Order and Influence
			Ivan M. Becić, Financial Policy in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 1919–1923
			Roumen Avramov, Bulgaria’s Twentieth Century Economy
			Dimitar Dimitrov, Do You Know Who We Are? Or Three Bulgarian Transitions Toward Europe
			Goran Nikolić, The Course of the Dinar and Foreign Exchange Policy in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941
	Roumiana Preshlenova and John R. Lampe, European Cultural Influences in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
		Comparing European Cultural Influences in Belgrade and Sofia
			Ranka Gašić, Belgrade on the Way Toward Europe: British and German Cultural Influences on the Belgrade Elite, 1918–1941
			Miroslav Jovanović, The Russian Emigration in the Balkans, 1920–1940
			Milcho Lalkov, “Germany in the Bulgarian History 1878–1939. Problems and Trends of an Uneven Presence”
5 The Jews and Other Minorities during World War II
	Constantin Iordachi and James Frusetta, The Holocaust and the Treatmentof Minorities in Wartime Balkans
		The Report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania
		Lya Benjamin, “The Doctrinarian Foundations of Antonescu’s Antisemitism”
		The Bulgarian Debate over “Who Saved the Jews?”
			Yosif Ilel, The Jews in Bulgaria between the Holocaust and the Rescue
			Mikhail Gruev, Between the Five-Pointed Star and the Crescent: The Bulgarian Muslims and the Political Regime (1944–1959)
			Artan Puto, “Plans for the Emigration of Jews in Albania”
			Valentina Duka, Contemporary Questions of the History of Albanians
List of Contributors
Index