Bulletin n. 1/2012 | ||
June 2012 | ||
Djokić Dejan |
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Nationalism, Myth and Reinterpretation of History: The Neglected Case of Interwar Yugoslavia | ||
in European History Quarterly , Volume 42, No. 1 , January , 2012 , 71-95 | ||
This article discusses and challenges some popular myths and perceptions about interwar Yugoslavia in post-socialist (and post-Yugoslav) Serbia. These include discourses that blame ‘others’ – ‘treacherous’ Croats and other non-Serbs, the ‘perfidious’ west, especially Britain – and that are also self-critical, of Serbs’ ‘naivety’ as exemplified in their choosing to create Yugoslavia at the end of the First World War, and of, later, embracing communism. The article also offers a reassessment of the interwar period, often neglected by scholars of former Yugoslavia. | ||