Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim-centred Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia
Comparing and contrasting Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, this text analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events, offering a discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory
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Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 What is the nation? Towards a teleological model of nationalism; 2 Instrumentalising the Holocaust: from universalisation to relativism; 3 Slobodan Milosevic and the construction of Serbophobia; 4 Croatia, 'Greater Serbianism', and the conflict between East and West; 5 Masking the past: the Second World War and the Balkan Historikerstreit; 6 Comparing genocides: 'numbers games' and 'holocausts' at Jasenovac and Bleiburg; 7 Tito's Yugoslavia and after: Communism, post-Communism, and the war in Croatia. 8 'Greater Serbia' and 'Greater Croatia': the Moslem question in Bosnia-Hercegovina Conclusions: confronting relativism in Serbia and Croatia; Bibliography; Index
Full text available: 2002. Available in Books at JSTOR: Open Access.
Full text available: 2003. Available in OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks).