Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia
| Titel: | Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Manchester : Manchester Univ. Press, 2003 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource, 321 S. |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
New Approaches to Conflict Analysis |
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| ISBN: | 0719064678 |
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- Preface
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- A note on methodology
- p. 11
- 1
- What is the nation? Towards a teleological model of nationalism
- p. 15
- Myths of the nation: teleology and time
- p. 16
- Myths of covenant and renewal
- p. 20
- Primary myths of identification
- p. 22
- The golden age of nationalism
- p. 23
- Negative myths of identification
- p. 26
- A taxonomy of Fall and persecution myths
- p. 29
- Modernism and its approach to nationalism
- p. 31
- Conclusions
- p. 35
- 2
- Instrumentalising the Holocaust: from universalisation to relativism
- p. 39
- Biblical and Jewish ethics: nationalism and Zionism
- p. 40
- Universalising the Holocaust
- p. 43
- The comparative genocide debate and the Holocaust
- p. 49
- The Holocaust as unique in the annals of comparative genocide
- p. 49
- Against uniqueness: multiple genocides and holocausts in history
- p. 51
- 'Acting' like a victim: the Holocaust as performative
- p. 54
- Conclusions
- p. 58
- 3
- Slobodan Milosevic and the construction of Serbophobia
- p. 63
- Contextualising propaganda: the rise of Serbian nationalism
- p. 64
- 'Kosovo' and the development of Serbian consciousness
- p. 69
- Renewal of the Serbian Orthodox Church
- p. 72
- Generalising Kosovo: Serbian and Jewish connections
- p. 73
- The first targets: myths of persecution and the Kosovar Albanians
- p. 75
- Contextualising Serbian nationalism in Croatia
- p. 78
- Serbian territorial claims in the Krajina and Eastern Slavonia
- p. 80
- Moral claims: the myth of 'Serbophobia'
- p. 82
- Serbian interpretations of the first Yugoslavia
- p. 89
- Conclusions
- p. 91
- 4
- Croatia, 'Greater Serbianism', and the conflict between East and West
- p. 98
- The beginnings of Croatian nationalism
- p. 99
- Contextualising the war in Croatia
- p. 103
- Croatia confronts 'Greater Serbia'
- p. 106
- Croatian perceptions of the first Yugoslavia
- p. 111
- Croatian state right and the antemurale Christianitatis
- p. 114
- The civilisational divide between East and West
- p. 116
- The myth of Medjugorje
- p. 120
- The different racial origins of the Serbs
- p. 122
- Conclusions
- p. 124
- 5
- Masking the past: the Second World War and the Balkan Historikerstreit
- p. 132
- A short overview of the Second World War
- p. 134
- Rehabilitating the NDH: conflicting perceptions among the Croats
- p. 135
- Serbian views of the Ustasa and Cetniks
- p. 138
- Croatian views of the Cetniks
- p. 140
- Anti-Semitism in Croatia: Stepinac and the people
- p. 143
- Serbian views of collaboration and anti-Semitism
- p. 147
- The myth of Partisan participation
- p. 151
- Conclusions
- p. 153
- 6
- Comparing genocides: 'numbers games' and 'holocausts' at Jasenovac and Bleiburg
- p. 160
- The 'numbers game' at Jasenovac
- p. 161
- Jasenovac and the Serbian 'holocaust'
- p. 162
- Jasenovac, the Croatians, and the 'black legend'
- p. 165
- Bleiburg: the Croatian 'holocaust'
- p. 170
- Croats and the numbers game
- p. 172
- Motives and participants in Bleiburg
- p. 173
- Bleiburg as a Ustasa 'sacrifice'
- p. 174
- Conclusions
- p. 177
- 7
- Tito's Yugoslavia and after: Communism, post-Communism, and the war in Croatia
- p. 183
- The Communist era: 1945-90
- p. 184
- Serbian views of Tito's Yugoslavia
- p. 186
- Administrative versus natural borders
- p. 187
- The 1974 constitution and genocide
- p. 190
- Genocidal Croats: Croatian nationalism in the SFRY
- p. 191
- Croatian perceptions of the SFRY
- p. 193
- Serbian economic domination
- p. 194
- The Serbian character explained
- p. 195
- Linguistic repression in Yugoslavia
- p. 197
- The rise of Serbian and Croatian nationalism: interpretations
- p. 200
- 'Operation Storm'
- p. 204
- Contemporary fears of the Catholic Church
- p. 206
- Croatian views of the war in Croatia
- p. 207
- The long-awaited evil--Greater Serbia
- p. 209
- Serbian Nazis and collective psychosis
- p. 210
- Conclusions
- p. 214
- 8
- 'Greater Serbia' and 'Greater Croatia': the Moslem question in Bosnia-Hercegovina
- p. 220
- Primordial and constructed nations: the case of the Bosnian Moslems
- p. 221
- Denouncing constructed nationalism and Islam
- p. 223
- The Moslems as 'fallen' Serbs: ethnic and territorial dimensions
- p. 224
- Bosnian Moslems and their Croatian heritage
- p. 226
- Bosnia-Hercegovina as a Croatian land
- p. 228
- Analysing Serbian and Croatian arguments
- p. 229
- The Moslems as 'traitors': the Islamic conspiracy theory
- p. 232
- Serbs and the 'Moslem traitors' in Bosnia-Hercegovina
- p. 232
- Imagining the Islamic state: Serbian perspectives
- p. 234
- The Moslems as genocidal killers
- p. 237
- Croatian views of the Bosnian Moslems
- p. 238
- Assigning blame in Bosnia-Hercegovina
- p. 240
- The Bosnian Moslem perspective
- p. 242
- Conclusions
- p. 244
- Conclusions: confronting relativism in Serbia and Croatia
- p. 251
- Religious nationalism and 'ethnic' nations
- p. 252
- Holocaust imagery and the comparative genocide debate
- p. 256
- Instrumentalising the Fall
- p. 259
- Was there ever genocide in Serbia or Croatia?
- p. 261
- Western reactions: does the comparative genocide debate work?
- p. 266
- Bibliography
- p. 271
- Index
- p. 301
