Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia

Publication Date: April 19, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0719064678 | ISBN-13: 978-0719064678

Balkan Holocausts? compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centered writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis.

Review
"[T]he author has succeeded in exploring his subject in a way which is both lively and genuinely informative. ... extremely well written, based on a wide range of relevant sources and sensible and generally persuasive in its judgements ... His discussion of the debate about the Holocaust is sophisticated and based on a thorough knowledge of the relevant debates." -- James Mayall, Cambridge University
About the Author
David Bruce Macdonald is Lecturer in Political Studies, University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Manchester University Press (April 19, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0719064678
ISBN-13: 978-0719064678