East European Quarterly articles from December 2004

East European Quarterly archives from December 2004

Words before the war: Milosevic's use of mass media band rhetoric to provoke ethnopolitical conflict in former Yugoslavia (1).
December 22, 2004... Introduction Many prominent analysts of the Yugoslav conflict maintain that Yugoslav disintegration was in many ways the logical outcome of Milosevic's policies. In an attempt to present one of the ways in which Milosevic's policies...

Imagining the Croatian nation.
December 22, 2004... The Balkan War in the 1990's created a historical actuality where one could investigate the construction of national identity. For the purpose of this article, how Croats defined themselves and their "Croatness" will be examined. The sources...

Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian? Language and nationality in the lands of former Yugoslavia.
December 22, 2004... The Swedish Embassy in a narrow street in downtown Sarajevo bears a signboard with its designation in three forms. Alongside Svedska ambasada in both Latin and Cyrillic script is a third, Svedsko viseposlanstvo. The first two forms represent...

Upper Silesia 1870-1920: between region, religion, nation and ethnicity.
December 22, 2004... Pochodzenie (...) to uleglosc wobec pamieci (...), grzech porownywania goracej czekolady z wilgotna plaza lozka. (1) Introduction In the today's world of nation-states the ideology of nationalism has ruled supreme, at least,...

Responses to inhumanity in the Balkans and a preliminary discussion concerning the problem of evil.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... In Rezak Hukanovic's novel based on his experience in the death camps of Bosnia, his protagonist Djemo narrates a scene wherein he and other Croats and Muslims captured by Serbian troops were being conveyed by truck to a concentration camp....

Czech settlements in 19th century Cleveland, Ohio.
December 22, 2004... By the year 1910, Cleveland, Ohio was one of the largest Czech cities in the world. Only the cities of Chicago, Vienna, and Prague had a larger population of citizens of Czech nativity and heritage than Cleveland (Ledbetter 1919). The Cleveland...

For want of rubber: Romania's affair with Firestone in 1965.
December 22, 2004... Lyndon Johnson took office in late 1963, determined to continue pursuing the late President Kennedy's policy of detente with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy had increased trade with the Eastern European states and advocated a policy of "peaceful...