Südosteuropäische Arbeiten
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Edited by:
Ulf Brunnbauer
and Konrad Clewing
In der der traditionsreichen Buchreihe des Leibniz-Instituts für Ost-und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), den "Südosteuropäische Arbeiten", werden herausragende Monographien sowie Grundlagenwerke zur Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte ganz Südosteuropas veröffentlicht. Die umfassende internationale Rezeption und Verbreitung der Reihe weist sie auf ihrem Feld als führend aus. Die Reihe führt damit seit Ende 2006 auch die inhaltlichen Bereiche der früheren "Untersuchungen zur Gegenwartskunde Südosteuropas" fort.
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The Romanian Orthodox Church is the largest Orthodox church in the European Union. Today, it is one of the most important political and economic factors in Romania. Since 1989, it has managed to largely prevent any critical scholarly examination of its recent history. Its entanglement in the Romania’s left- and right-wing dictatorships has never been studied in context.
Places and spaces are often considered to be static and immobile when compared with the dynamism of time. This volume challenges that notion, positing a theory of the mobility of places by tracing the changing localizations of the Old Fairground at the heart of the Serbian capital of Belgrade. This paints a multifaceted picture of the "journeys" that this contentious site of memory has embarked upon.
Drawing inspiration from the work of Maria Todorova, Re-Imagining the Balkans displays the breadth of Balkan Studies today in twenty-nine chapters authored by a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars. The volume seeks to address how to incorporate the regions of East and Southeast Europe into broader scholarly trends and epistemological currents, while retaining local and regional expertise. The contributions include new research on historical legacies, (geo)politics, generations, memory, and cultural transfers, fresh methodological and historiographical interventions, and novel pedagogical insights. Collectively, the authors display cutting-edge knowledge, orient the general reader in the state of the field, and demonstrate the importance of Southeast Europe for the study of European, transnational, and global history.
In the former Russian province of Bessarabia united with Romania in 1918, local inhabitants tried to make sense of the new reality by mastering geopolitical visions and making their own identity choices. Profoundly marked by the World War I, the disintegration of the Russian Empire and the growing Bolshevik danger, a group of Bessarabians, of both imperial and revolutionary elite, refused to imagine the fate of their region alongside Romania but looked for political alternatives, either in autonomy inside Romania and Ukraine or as part of a restored (monarchic or democratic) Russia. The book tells the story of a transnational network of Bessarabians and White Russian émigrés in Paris and other European capitals who during the 1919 Peace Conference played wisely on the "Wilsonian moment" to propel the idea of a pro-Russian "will" of the Bessarabians. Though unsuccessful in solving the Bessarabian "question" in Paris in their favor, they succeeded in animating anti-Romanian feelings and impacting personal and group identities inside the region.
The Romanian history of the interwar period was shaped by the integration of new regions and the simultaneity of state and nation building. One striking countermovement in response to "westernizing" modernization was Old Calendarism, which came from the ranks of the supposed titular nation. For the farmers who gathered in this movement, it was about saving their souls and defending their traditional orthodoxy.
This book provides a microhistorical reconstruction of rural ways of life and communities of farmers and shepherds in the Venetian Dalmatia of the fifteenth century, specifically on the island of Korčula. This anthropologically inspired analysis is made possible due to archival sources that are unusually rich for the epoch – even compared with the Mediterranean region as a whole – relating to local Venetian administrative and legal practices.
This long-term study (1870 to 1950) asks how mental illness was diagnosed, interpreted, and experienced in the Croato-Serbian region during times of war and peace, and places the answers in their specific cultural, institutional and societal contexts. The "age of anxiety" arrived late and was dominated by the diagnosis of "schizophrenia." One surprising reason for this was the dominance of patients coming from rural areas.
Research into Southeast Europe experienced a boom during the "Third Reich," making it a prime example of the relationship between politics, scholarship, and individual academics at the time. Wolfgang Höpken uses methods from institutional and biographical history to examine this constellation, continuing his analysis deep into the Federal German Republic.
Albania’s communism is often exoticized. However, this book shows that, in many regards, it was typical of real-socialist systems. Prime examples of this are the efforts and failures revealed in Albania’s industrialization project, which culminated in the steel combines in the central Albanian town of Elbasan examined in this volume. As a microhistorical milestone, this book is essential reading – not just for people interested in Albania.
The book examines the late phase of the Albanian communist ruling system between 1976 and 1985. It addresses the practices of rule by state party actors and examines how ordinary citizens managed their lives under difficult conditions, thus offering insight into how the ruling system functioned, was implemented, carried out, legitimized, undermined, experienced, and (re)interpreted.
The Landlord of Tscheb was murdered by his subjects on 30 September 1812. Subsequent investigation revealed the cruelty of his rule. This case of murder and conspiracy is examined historically and anthropologically, illuminating daily life and legal realities in the Kingdom of Hungary. The study focuses on the "common man" and "common woman" – the faceless perpetrators whom this microhistory now grants a place in history.
The officially transmitted picture of the People’s Police in socialist Romania differs starkly from the conceptual view of its citizens. Individual “law-enforcers” were unprepared for the crumbling of their status, while the People’s Police as a whole could not come up with measures to stem this profound disenchantment. This affected the perception of the political regime as a whole and contributed to its gradual collapse in the 1980s.
This book examines the 25-year construction history of the rail line between Belgrade and the Adriatic port city of Bar in Montenegro. In addition to offering an account of the rail line’s planning and construction, the author provides insight into the experiences of the participating companies, thus shedding light on how the decentralization and co-federalization of economic and political processes influenced the construction project.
In 1821, revolution erupted in the Peloponnesus, culminating in a long war of independence and ultimately leading to the foundation of the independent nation of Greece. Drawing on theoretical approaches from revolution research while particularly focusing on the socio-economic and political structures of pre-revolutionary Peloponnesus, the author lends insight as to why revolution took place then and there.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Moldova has faced the problem of strengthening its statehood and successfully integrating the large Russian-speaking minority in its population. In her insightful study, Rosanna Dom examines the fragile relationship between the new nation and the Russian and Ukrainian minorities in this land located between Southeast and Eastern Europe.
Until this book was published, Kosovo remained a blank space in research on Socialist Yugoslavia, a surprising fact given that the largely Albanian province had been such a critical factor in both its stability and ultimate demise. Based on new sources, the author investigates the ways that Yugoslav rule stabilized Kosovo despite the violent nature of its incorporation in 1945, and also shows the ongoing conflicts it created.
In the final years of Ottoman rule, the lives of Moslems and Christians in Kosovo were characterized by rising tensions not only between Albanian Moslems and Orthodox Serbs but also between Albanian Moslems and Albanian Catholics. This book examines the causes, manifestations, and dynamics of conflict and violence, while also showing those areas where day-to-day coexistence and cooperation remained possible.
At the end of the First World War, Transylvania was taken away from the Hungarian state and made part of ‘Greater Romania.’ The ensuing integration process generated numerous areas of conflict. Most Transylvanians felt treated as second-class citizens. 1928 saw an overwhelming electoral victory by the National Peasants’ Party, largely supported by Romanian Transylvanians, but this last hope for democracy failed in 1933.
The opening of the Romanian archives after 1989 has brought to light the extent of the Antonescu regime’s policy of persecution and extermination directed against the Jews living under Romanian rule. This new information compels a reassessment of the actions of National Socialist Germany. Hildrun Glas analyzes the interactions between Germany and Romania, filling a gap in the research on the regional dimensions of the Holocaust.
The subject of this volume is the “Iron Guard,” a right-wing nationalist movement that spread widely throughout Romanian society, most concentrated in the Moldavian region and among the working classes. The essays bring to light numerous new research findings about this fascistic movement.
As its founder and head of state, Tito helped shape socialist Yugoslavia from its beginnings until his death in 1980. The personality cult created around him was a cornerstone of communist autocracy in government and society. The book examines the relationship between Tito’s charisma and personality cult, the limits of its efficacy, and the reasons it eroded in the 1980s.
This volume examines the process of nation building in Kosovo, which began well before the 1998–1999 war, and reflects a laborious process of political democratization in post-war society since 1999. It reveals successes and problems associated with outsiders setting targets for nation building and democracy, and internal tensions between ‘European’ and ‘American’ approaches to ideas about the future of Kosovo’s society.
Zur Tagung:
"Der frische Wind aus Südost wird nicht nur neue Einsichten in die Wissenschaftsgeschichte bringen. Er könnte auch das Fundament freilegen für einen Neuanfang der Südostforschung jenseits des Freund-Feind-Denkens der Politik." Christian Jostmann in der SZ, 29.10.2002
Aus dem Inhalt:
Mathias Beer: Wege zur Historisierung der Südostforschung. Voraussetzungen, Ansätze, Themenfelder
Michael Fahlbusch: Im Dienste des Deutschtums in Südosteuropa: Ethnopolitische Berater als Tathelfer für Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930-1960
Christian Promitzer: Täterwissenschaft: Das Südostdeutsche Institut in Graz
Christoph Morrisey: Das Institut für Heimatforschung in Käsmark (Slowakei), 1941-1944
Harald Roth: Wissenschaft zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Stalinismus: Vom Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Volksgruppe in Rumänien zum Forschungsinstitut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Rumänischen Akademie
Willi Oberkrome: Regionalismus und historische 'Volkstumsforschung' 1890-1960
Isabel Heinemann: Die Rasseexperten der SS und die bevölkerungspolitische Neuordnung Südosteuropas
Christian Töchterle: Wir und die "Dinarier" - Der europäische Südosten in den rassentheoretischen Abhandlungen vor und im Dritten Reich
Norbert Spannenberger: Vom volksdeutschen Nachwuchswissenschaftler zum Protagonisten nationalsozialistischer Südosteuropapolitik. Fritz Valjavec im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz 1934-1939
Gerhard Grimm: Georg Stadtmüller und Fritz Valjavec. Zwischen Anpassung und Selbstbehauptung
Krista Zach: Friedrich Valjavec nach seinen privaten tagebuchartigen Aufzeichnungen (1934-1946)
Edgar Hösch: Südostforschung vor und nach 1945. Eine historiographische Herausforderung
Die Autorin vergleicht die Diaspora- und Emigrationspolitik der griechischen Regierung mit derjenigen anderer süd- und osteuropäischer Länder und skizziert die Situation der griechischen Diaspora in den USA.