Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS xiii
3. AUTHOR'S NOTE: JULY 1973 xxi
4. PREFACE TO THE 1956 EDITION xxiii
5. PART I. Before 193 9
6. Chapter I. THE PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS BOOK 3
7. Chapter 2. THE SCENE: A DESCRIPTION OF THE BALKAN COUNTRIES 10
8. Chapter 3. THE CHARACTERS, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE: THE PEOPLES OF THE BALKANS 25
9. Chapter 4. THE LEGACY OF DEAD EMPIRES: FROM THE FOURTH CENTURY TO THE EIGHTEENTH 50
10. Chapter 5. NATIONAL AWAKENING AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF INDEPENDENCE: FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THROUGH WORLD WAR I 69
11. Chapter 6. FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR TO THE SECOND 101
12. Chapter 7. THE BALKAN ECONOMY 159
13. PART II. Since 193 9
14. Chapter 8. THE WAR YEARS 191
15. Chapter 9. THECOMMUNISTS TAKE OVER·. BALKAN POLITICS FROM THE FALL OF 1944 TO JUNE 1948 267
16. Chapter 10. THE COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER: THE ECONOMY OF THE BALKAN COUNTRIES FROM THE FALL OF 1944 TO JUNE 1948 323
17. Chapter 11. THE SOVIET-YUGOSLAV DISPUTE 352
18. Chapter 12. YUGOSLAVIA SINCE THE BREAK WITH THE COMIΝFORM 391
19. Chapter 13. POLITICAL LIFE IN THE BALKAN SATELLITES SINCE 1948 449
20. Chapter 14. THE BALKAN SATELLITE ECONOMIES SINCE 1948 497
21. Chapter 15. THE SOUL AND THE MIND 550
22. EPILOGUE: July 1955 582
23. AFTERWORD: THE BALKANS IN 1973 588
24. APPENDIX 614
25. INDEX 623