David Bruce MacDonald 
Balkan holocausts? [EPUB ebook] 

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Comparing and contrasting propaganda in Serbia and Croatia from 1986 to 1999, this book analyses each group’s contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of Holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called Holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. There is a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the Internet, detailing how and why the Internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, and a theme-by-theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals.

Spis treści

1. What is the nation?: towards a teleological model of nationalism 2. Instrumentalising the holocaust: from universalisation to relativism 3. Slobodan Milosevic and the construction of Serbophobia 4. Croatia, 'greater serbianism’, and the conflict between east and west 5. Masking the past: world war II and the Balkan Historikerstreit 6. Comparing genocides: 'numbers games’ and 'holocausts’ at Jasenovac and Bleiburg 7. Whither Tito?: communism, post-communism, and the war in Croatia 8. 'Greater Serbia’ and 'greater Croatia’: the Moslem question in Bosnia-Hercegovina Conclusions: Confronting relativism in Serbia and Croatia Bibliography Index