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Balkan strongmen : dictators and authoritarian rulers of South Eastern Europe

Title: Balkan strongmen : dictators and authoritarian rulers of South Eastern Europe / Bernd J. Fischer, editor.
Publication: London : C. Hurst & Company, ©2007.

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Fischer, Bernd J., 1952-

Description

ix, 494 pages : portraits; 23 cm

Summary

Brings strongmen to life, providing fascinating insights into the personalities and examining political oppression, the cult of personality and the historical impact of dictatorship on South-Eastern Europe.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

King Zog, Albania's interwar dictator / Bernd J. Fischer -- King Aleksandar and the royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia / Brigit Farley -- Carol II of Romania / Maria Bucur -- Boris III, Tsar of the Bulgarians / Frederick Chary -- Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey / Feroz Ahmad -- Ioannis Metaxas and the "Fourth of August" dictatorship in Greece / S. Victor Papacosma -- Ante Pavelić and the Ustaša State in Croatia / John K. Cox -- Enver Hoxha and the Stalinist dictatorship in Albania / Bernd J. Fischer -- Strongmen can be beneficial: the exceptional case of Josip Broz Tito / John V. A. Fine -- Nicolae Ceaușescu, the "Great genius of the Carpathians" / Robert Forrest -- Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria's long-time communist leader / Stefan Krause -- George Papadopoulos and the dictatorship of the Colonels, 1967-1974 / Despina Papadimitriou -- The Milošević dictatorship: institutionalizing power and ethno-populism in Serbia / Lenard J. Cohen.

ISBN

1850657793
9781850657798
1850658285
9781850658283

OCLC

ocn137260569
137260569
SCSB-14499209

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library