The Balkans Since the Second World War.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgement; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Part I Communist Takeovers and Civil War: The Balkans 1944-1949; 1 Introduction; 2 Yugoslavia, 1944-1948; The Second World War and foundation of communist power; Communist power entrenched: October 1944 to November 1945; Communist power legitimized: the November 1945 elections and the January 1946 constitution; Unrestrained communist power in Yugoslavia, 1946-8.

External affairs from the end of the war to the breach with Stalin, 1944-83 Albania, 1944-1948; The foundation and growth of the communist movement; The consolidation of communist power, November 1944 to March 1946; The beginnings of the revolution from above, March 1946 to June 1948; Albania's external alignment, 1944-8; 4 Bulgaria, 1944-1948; Bulgaria during the Second World War; Factors in Bulgarian politics, 1944-8; From the coup of 9 September 1944 to the postponement of the elections in August 1945.

From the postponement of the elections in August 1945 to the Grand National Assembly elections of October 1946From the elections of October 1946 to the fifth party congress in December 1948; 5 Romania, 1944-1948; Factors in Romanian politics, 1944-8; From the coup of August 1944 to the installation of the Groza government in March 1945; The crisis of February-March 1945; From the installation of the Groza government to the elections of November 1946; The completion of the communist takeover, November 1946 to March 1948; 6 Greece, 1944-1949.

Internal conflicts in Greece during the Second World WarLeft and right in Greece, 1944-9; The December events, 1944; 'Anarchic Banditry': from the Varkiza agreement to the elections of March 1946; The drift to civil war: from the elections to the declaration of the provisional government, March 1946 to December 1947; The Greek civil war, December 1947 to August 1949; Part II The Balkans During the Cold War, 1949-1989; 7 Introduction; 8 Yugoslavia, 1948-1989; Finding 'Tito's way': Yugoslavia in the 1950s; Yugoslavia isolated; The beginnings of self-management.

The reform of party and state institutions, 1950-3Foreign policy and 'non-alignment'; Domestic affairs in the late 1950s; The search for stability: Yugoslavia 1960-76; The empowerment of the republics, 1960-5; The economic reforms of the mid-1960s; The fall of Ranković and the beginnings of unrest, 1966-8; The Croatian Spring, 1968-71; The purges and institutional reconstruction, 1971-6; Yugoslav foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s; Yugoslavia in decline, 1980-9; The demise of the old guard and their sustaining myths; Economic crisis and the discrediting of self-management.

Ethnic nationalism and the end of 'brotherhood and unity'

Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a manner unprecedented in Europe since World War Two. An understanding of why this happened is impossible without some knowledge of the history of the area before the fall of communism, of how the communists came to power and how they used their authority thereafter. Covering the communist states of Albania.

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