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Author Dimou, Augusta

Title Entangled Paths Toward Modernity : Contextualizing Socialism and Nationalism in the Balkans
Published New York : Central European University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (450 pages)
Contents Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Methodology -- 2. Context, ideology, adaptation -- II. INTELLECTUALS -- 1. The Russian connection and the geography of revolution -- 2. Models and master texts -- 3. The Balkan disciples -- 4. Intellectuals and political systems -- 5. Social descent and professional integration -- III. The ambiguities of modernity -- 1. Some notes on the historiography -- 2. The ideological roots of Serbian socialism -- 3. Modernization and its antecedents -- 4. A moral world imperiled -- 5. The mission: saving serbdom -- 6. The individual and society
7. The radicals and the nation -- 8. A l'attaque -- 9. The railway -- 10. The agrarian radicals -- 11. A popular party -- 12. The watershed -- 13. A church and an army -- 14. Slavophilism -- 15. To the people -- 16. Manipulating the past -- 17. Heading for confrontation -- 18. Constitutional philosophy -- 19. In power -- 20. Legacies of radicalism -- IV. CAUGHT UP IN THE CONTRADICTIONS OF MODERNITY -- 1. The Historiography of the schism -- 2. Bulgarian socialism -- 3. SÅ­iuz vs. Partiia: The priority of political or economic organization? -- 4. Blagoev vs. the narodniks -- 5. Constructing the social subject: a party with two voices
6. Modernization -- 7. Mentalities -- 8. The profile of the party -- 9. Flirting with the peasant -- 10. Obshto delo -- 11. "Alarm for ghosts-our apostasy or their nonsense" -- 12. Historical materialism not economic determinism -- 13. The debate on private ownership -- 14. The debate on party membership -- 15. The predicament of Bulgaria -- 16. Theory and practice -- 17. How to make sense of broad socialism -- 18. Rethinking Bulgarian politics -- V. Modernity without socialism -- 1. Historiographical notes -- 2. Greek nationalism: the imaginary of superiority
3. Some particularities of greek socio-economic development -- 4. Intellectuals: the discrete temptation of submission -- 5. The liberals: progress, expansion and order -- 6. The national schism: metamorphoses of political polarization -- 7. "The promise of the impossible revolution -- VI. EPILOGUE -- 1. Divergent paths towards modernity? -- 2. Legitimacy and mass politics -- 3. Socialism -- 4. Politics and the state -- 5. Legacies -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Notes Print version record
Subject Socialism -- Bulgaria -- History
Socialism -- Greece -- History
Socialism -- Serbia -- History
Socialism
Bulgaria
Greece
Serbia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789639776388
9639776386