HIST 573B - History of the Modern Balkans Since 1908

The Balkans from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse to the present. Social and cultural history of the Balkans as well as how the region’s peoples and states responded to the challenges of both World Wars, a brief interwar independence and their post-World War 2 absorption into the US and Soviet blocs and the Greek Civil War. The collapse of Communism, the region’s post-1989 transformation and the course and impact of Yugoslavia’s collapse.

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