Langbeschreibung
A study of the impact of the Great War on state and society in Yugoslavia during the interwar period.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: liberation and unification; Part I. Ultima Ratio Regnum, the Coming of Alexander's Dictatorship: 1. All the king's men: civil-military relations in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1903-1921; 2. A warriors' caste: veteran and patriotic associations against the state; 3. Resurrecting Lazar: modernization, medievalization and the Chetniks in the 'classical south'; Part II. In the Shadow of War: 4. In extremis: death throes and birth pains in the Habsburg south Slav lands; 5. Refractions of the Habsburg war: ongoing conflicts and contested commemorations; 6. No man's land: the invalid and volunteer questions; Part III. Re-mobilization: 7. Authoritarianism and new war, 1929-1941; 8. 'The gale of the world', 1941-1945; Conclusion: brotherhood and unity; Bibliography; Index.