MA Reading List: EAST EUROPEAN TRACK

(South Slavic emphasis)

Required texts:

John Allcock, Explaining Yugoslavia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Daniel Chirot, ed. The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski, Capitalism with a Comrade's Face: Studies in the Postcommunist Transition. Budapest: Central European University, 1998.

Roger Manser, Failed Transitions: The Eastern European Economy and Environment since the Fall of Communism. New York: New Press, 1993.

Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Peter F. Sugar and Ivo J. Lederer, eds. Nationalism in Eastern Europe. Reprint edition: Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1984.

Jeno Szucs, The Three Historical Regions of Europe: An Outline, Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 29 (1983): 131-84.

Susan Woodward, Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995.

Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Andrew Wachtel, Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1993.

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James Gow, Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Primary Texts: [Return to top]

Ivo Andric, The Bridge over the Drina.
Milovan Djilas, The New Class.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Petar Petrovic Njegos, The Mountain Wreath.

Recommended:

History [Return to top]

John Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History. Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, 1996.

Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, eds. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.

Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1974.

Joseph Rothschild and Nancy M. Wingfield, Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Dennison Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment 1948-1974. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

L.S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453. Reprint edition: New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia. New York: Norton, 1998.

Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Miranda Vickers, The Albanians: A Modern History. Rev. ed. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999.

__________, Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo. New York : Columbia University Press, 1998.

Politics and Society [Return to top]

Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Loring M. Danforth, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Eric D. Gordy, The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

James Gow, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Tim Judah, Kosovo: War and Revenge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Julie Mertus, Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Nebojša Popov, ed. The Road to War in Serbia: Trauma and Catharsis. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999.

Laura Silber & Allan Little, The Death of Yugoslavia. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Literature, Culture, and the Arts [Return to top]

Ralph Bogert, The Writer As Naysayer: Miroslav Krleza and the Aesthetic of Interwar Central Europe. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1991.

Carl Darling Buck. Language and the Sentiment of Nationality. American Political Science Review X (1916): 44-69.

Celia Hawkesworth, Ivo Andric: Bridge Between East and West. London: Athlone Press, 1984.

Ivan Lovrenovic, Bosnia: A Cultural History. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Stephen A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Economics and Geography [Return to top]

Iván T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

__________ and György Ránki, Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York, Columbia University Press, 1974.

Alan Dingsdale, Mapping Modernities: Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe, 1920-2000. New York: Routledge, 2002.

John R. Lampe and Marvin R. Jackson, Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

__________, Eastern Europe: An Historical Geography, 1815-1945. New York: Routledge, 1989.

__________, and F.W. Carter, eds. Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Philosophy and Religion [Return to top]

Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.

Sabrina Ramet, Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Gerson S. Sher, Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977.

Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.