Dynamics of Socialist Nation-Building: The Short Lived Programme of Promoting a Yugoslav National Identity and Some Comparative Perspectives

Authors

  • Hannes Grandits

Keywords:

nation building, socialism, Yugoslavia

Abstract

Adopting a historical perspective, the article discusses the politics of nation building in Socialist Yugoslavia and the dialectics between Yugoslav national identity and national identities developed in the Federation’s constitutive republics.

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Hannes Grandits

Univ. Doz. Dr. in South-Eastern European History, Institute of History, Department of History of SouthEastern Europe, Mozartgasse 3 A-8010 Graz (Austria)

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2008-01-01

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Grandits, H. . (2008). Dynamics of Socialist Nation-Building: The Short Lived Programme of Promoting a Yugoslav National Identity and Some Comparative Perspectives. Two Homelands, (27). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/11168

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No. 27 (2008)

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