Zola, The Kill (2008)

Émile Zola.
The Kill (La Curée).
Translated by Brian Nelson.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
(First published in 2004.)

Volume 3 of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart series.
(Volume 3 in recommended reading order; volume 2 in publication order.)

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Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.


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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.
• Brian Nelson (b. 1946), Wikipedia.
• Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin. Translated by Andrew Rothwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Thérèse Raquin is here.
• Émile Zola. The Fortune of the Rougons. Translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for The Fortune of the Rougons is here.
• Émile Zola. His Excellency Eugène Rougon. Translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for His Excellency Eugène Rougon is here.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Les Rougon-Macquart, 1871–1893.
• La Curée, 1871–72 [The Kill].
• Jean Racine (1639–1699), Phèdre, 1677.
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.
• Naturalism (literature).
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• France in the long nineteenth century.
  • French First Republic, 1792–1804.
  • First French Empire, 1804–1814/1815.
  • Bourbon Restoration in France, 1814/1815–1830.
  • July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
  • French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
  • Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
  • French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
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• Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
• Paris during the Second Empire.
• Haussmann's renovation of Paris, 1853–1870.
• Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–1891).
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.

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Zola, His Excellency Eugène Rougon (2018)

Émile Zola.
His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
Translated by Brian Nelson.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Volume 2 of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart series.
(Volume 2 in recommended reading order; volume 6 in publication order.)

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.
• Brian Nelson (b. 1946).
• Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin. Translated by Andrew Rothwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Thérèse Raquin is here.
• Émile Zola. The Fortune of the Rougons. Translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for The Fortune of the Rougons is here.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Les Rougon-Macquart, 1871–1893.
• Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, 1876.
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.
• Naturalism (literature).
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• France in the long nineteenth century.
  • French First Republic, 1792–1804.
  • First French Empire, 1804–1814/1815.
  • Bourbon Restoration in France, 1814/1815–1830.
  • July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
  • French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
  • Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
  • French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
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• Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808–1873), President of France 1848–1852; Emperor of the French as Napoleon III 1852–1870.
• 1851 French coup d'état.
• Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
• Paris during the Second Empire.
• Haussmann's renovation of Paris, 1853–1870.
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.
• History of rail transport in France.
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• Third cabinet of Napoleon III, 2 December 1852 – 17 July 1869.
• Eugène Rouher (1814–1884), French statesman, basis for the character Eugène Rougon in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny (1808–1872), French statesman; some actions of the Duc de Persigny are attributed to the character Eugène Rougon in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny (1808–1872), French industrialist and statesman, basis for the character the Count de Marsy in His Excellency Eugène Rougon. (French Wikipedia article is more detailed. That's true for most of the articles listed here.)
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• Napoléon, Prince Imperial, born 16 March 1856; the government / public celebration of his baptism on 14 June 1856 provides the backdrop for Chapter 4 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), basis for the character Clorinde Balbi in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Italian unification, "Risorgimento".
• Palais Bourbon, meeting place of the French National Assembly; setting for Chapters 1 and 14 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Château de Compiègne, setting for Chapter 7 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.
• Château de Saint-Cloud, setting for Chapter 11 in His Excellency Eugène Rougon.

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"Rougon is a composite character, modeled on General Espinasse (Minister of the Interior in the aftermath of the Orsini Affair), the Duc de Persigny, Jules Baroche, Adolphe Billault, and, especially, Eugène Rouher, the 'strong man' of the Empire, sometimes referred to as the 'vice-Emperor'." - Introduction, page xvii.

"The novel is one of the least popular of Zola's novels. However, it is valuable to the historian as a detailed evocation of politics during Napoleon III's Second Empire; and it is especially noteworthy as a surprisingly modern satire of all forms of authoritarian government and of the malevolence, duplicity, and language games of which those in power are capable." - Translator's Note, page xxvi.

Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (2009)

Victor Hugo.
Notre-Dame de Paris.
Translated by Alban Krailsheimer.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
(This translation was first published in 1993.)

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Wikipedia.
• Krailsheimer, Alban John (1921–2001), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Victor Hugo (1802–1885), The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831.
• 19th-century French literature: Romanticism.
• Gothic fiction.
• Romanticism.
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• Notre-Dame de Paris (the cathedral).

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Fenby, France: A Modern History . . . (2016)

Jonathan Fenby.
France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror.
New York: St. Martin's Press (Macmillan Publishers), 2016.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Originally published as:
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War on Terror.
London: Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd., 2015.
[Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

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I read this book once before. My post for that is:

• Fenby, France: A Modern History . . . (2016), 19 February 2019.

At that time I had recently read some books on the U.S. war in Vietnam and I wanted to understand more about French colonialism during the Nineteenth Century. Unfortunately, Fenby's book has almost nothing to say on that topic and the most attention French Indochina gets is a sketchy one page on the siege at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Logevall's Embers of War (2012) is pretty good on French Indochina during the Twentieth Century. I started reading Brocheux & Hémery, Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 (2011) but haven't finished it. It's definitely the kind of book I was looking for, but Brocheux & Hémery requires a greater familiarity with French history than what's provided by Fenby's very introductory book.

More recently I read a couple novels by Zola and thought I should know more about Nineteenth Century France (The Fortune of the Rougons is a very political novel). So I read Fenby's book again. He covers all the basic topics: Bourbon Restoration (Louis XVIII and Charles X), July Monarchy (Louis Philippe), Second Republic, Second Empire (Louis-Napoléon), Third Republic; but it's all very introductory. Now I'm looking forward to reading some books that focus on Nineteenth Century France:

• Gildea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2010); and
• Tombs, France 1814-1914 (1996).

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Norwich, A History of France (2018)

John Julius Norwich.
A History of France.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.

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Published in the UK as:
France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle.
London: John Murray, 2018.
[Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]

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Author Information:

• John Julius Norwich (1929–2018), Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of France.

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Zola, The Fortune of the Rougons (2012)

Émile Zola.
The Fortune of the Rougons.
Translated by Brian Nelson.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Volume 1 of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart series.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.
• Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin. Translated by Andrew Rothwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Thérèse Raquin is here.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Les Rougon-Macquart, 1871–1893.
• La Fortune des Rougon, 1871.
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.
• Naturalism (literature).
• Brian Nelson (b. 1946).
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• France in the long nineteenth century.
  • French First Republic, 1792–1804.
  • First French Empire, 1804–1814/1815.
  • Bourbon Restoration in France, 1814/1815–1830.
  • July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
  • French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
  • Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
  • French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
• 1851 French coup d'état, background political event in La Fortune des Rougon.
• Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808–1873), President of France 1848–1852; Emperor of the French as Napoleon III 1852–1870.
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• Aix-en-Provence, the town portrayed as Plassans in Zola's novels.
• Provence, historical province.
• Var (department), location of violence during December 1851 in response to the coup d'état.
• Occitania, historical region.
• Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, current Administrative Region.
• Southern France, South of France, le Midi.
• Departments of France.
• Regions of France.

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Other Books:

• Noel Blache. Histoire de l'insurrection du Var en decembre 1851. 1869.
• Eugène Ténot. Paris en décembre 1851: étude historique sur le Coup d'État. Paris: Armand Le Chevalier, 1868.
  [Archive.org.]
  Eugène Ténot. Paris in December, 1851; or, The coup d'tat of Napoleon III. Translated by S. W. Adams and A. H. Brandon. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1870.
  [Archive.org.]
• Eugène Ténot. La province en décembre 1851: étude historique. Paris: Chez les principaux libraires, 1865.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  Eugène Ténot. La province en décembre 1851: étude historique sur le coup d'État. Paris: Armand Le Chevalier, 1868.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Ted W. Margadant. French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karl Marx. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. 1852. New York: International Publishers Company, 1994.
  [Wikipedia; Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• Victor Hugo. Napoléon le Petit [Napoleon the Little]. London: Vizetelly and Company, 1852. New York: Seldon & Company, 1870.
  [Archive.org, 1852; Archive.org, 1870; Wikipedia.]
• John B. Halsted, editor. December 2, 1851: Contemporary Writings on the Coup d'Etat of Louis Napoleon. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1972.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism (2002)

Dennis P. Hupchick.
The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism.
New York, USA and Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2002.

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Author Information:

• Dennis P. Hupchick (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
• Dennis P. Hupchick, Professor Emeritus, History, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
• Hupchick, Dennis P(Aul) 1948-, Encyclopedia.com.
• Dennis P. Hupchick. Culture and History in Eastern Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Balkans.
• Southeast Europe.
• History of the Balkans.
• Balkans Animation 1800-2008.
• I collected more Wikipedia articles related to the Balkans, especially since 1804, in my post for Glenny, The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (2001).

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Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (2018)

Erich Maria Remarque.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Translated by Brian Murdoch.
New York: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
(Everyman's Library, Volume 386.)

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series.

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Author Information:

• Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), Wikipedia.
• Erich Maria Remarque, Penguin Random House.
• Brian O. Murdoch (b. 1944), Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970).
• All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), 1928.
• War novel.
• German literature: 20th century.
• Weimar culture: Literature.
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• Causes of World War I.
• World War I, July 1914 – November 1918.
• German Empire, 1871–1918.
• History of Germany during World War I.
• Aftermath of World War I.
• Weimar Republic, Germany, 1918–1933.

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Zola, Thérèse Raquin (2008)

Émile Zola.
Thérèse Raquin.
Translated by Andrew Rothwell.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Author Information:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902), Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Émile Zola (1840–1902).
• Thérèse Raquin, 1867.
• Naturalism (literature).
• 19th-century French literature: Naturalism.

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Glenny, The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (2001)

Misha [Michael V. E.] Glenny.
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999.
New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

Book Information: Amazon.com.

Newer editions of this book were published in 2012 (USA) and 2017 (UK):

• The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011.
  New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012.
  London: Granta Books, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

The 2012 USA edition differs from the 2001 edition that I read in the addition of a new epilogue, about 40 pages long, "The Swinging Doors: Europe, crime and economic crisis, 1999-2012". What was labeled as Epilogue in the 2001 edition ("The Balkan Vortex: Nationalism, war and NATO, 1989-99") became Chapter 9 in the 2012 edition.

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Author Information:

• Misha Glenny (b. 1958), Wikipedia.
• Misha Glenny, mishaglenny.com.
• Misha Glenny, London Review of Books.
• Misha Glenny. The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy, Second Edition. Penguin Books, 1993.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Misha Glenny. The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War, Third Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Misha Glenny. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld. New York: Knopf, 2008; Penguin Books, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Misha Glenny. DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops, and You. London: The Bodley Head, 2011. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. [Title changed for USA paperback edition:] DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Misha Glenny. Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio's Biggest Slum. London: The Bodley Head, 2015. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. New York: Vintage Books, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Misha Glenny

• Misha Glenny, "The Balkans," Olsson's Books and Records, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 09 May 2000.

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Other:

• Steven W. Sowards, "Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History (The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism)," Michigan State University, Archive.org, 1996.

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Wikipedia Articles:

---------- Balkans Region: ----------
• Balkans.
• Southeast Europe.
• History of the Balkans.
• Balkans Animation 1800-2008.
---------- Ottoman Empire and the Balkans; Turkey: ----------
• Rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire, 19th Century.
• Ottoman wars in Europe: 19th century.
• Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, 19th Century – early 20th Century.
• Young Turk Revolution, July 1908.
• Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1922.
• Partition of the Ottoman Empire, 1918–1922.
• Turkish National Movement, 1919–1923.
• Turkish War of Independence, 1919–1923.
• Treaty of Sèvres, signed 10 August 1920.
• Treaty of Lausanne, signed 24 July 1923.
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (c.1881–1938), President of Turkey 1923–1938.
• Turkey, Republic of Turkey established 1923.
• History of the Republic of Turkey.
---------- Balkans, 19th Century: ----------
• International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919).
• Eastern Question of European international relations during the 19th century.
• Crimean War, October 1853 – March 1856.
• Treaty of Paris (1856).
• Austria-Hungary, 1867–1918.
• Great Eastern Crisis, 1875–1878.
• Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).
• Congress of Berlin, June–July 1878.
---------- Balkans, 20th Century: ----------
• Pig War (1906–1908), a trade war between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.
• Bosnian Crisis of 1908–09.
• Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Austria-Hungary ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1878 and annexed it in 1908.
• Balkan League, 1912 (Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro).
• Balkan Wars, 1912–1913.
• First Balkan War, October 1912 – May 1913.
• Second Balkan War, June–August 1913.
• Balkans theatre, World War I.
• History of the Balkans: Consequences of World War I.
• International relations (1919–1939).
• Balkans campaign (World War II).
• Revolutions of 1989.
• Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1980s–1990s.
• Yugoslav Wars, 1991–2001.
---------- Serbia to Yugoslavia: ----------
• South Slavs.
• Pan-Slavism.
• Yugoslavism.
• Serbian Revolution, 1804–1835.
• Serbian nationalism.
• Principality of Serbia, 1815–1882.
• Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878), part of the Great Eastern Crisis.
• Kingdom of Serbia, 1882–1918.
• History of modern Serbia.
• Central Serbia.
• Vojvodina.
• Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941 (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1918–1929).
• Invasion of Yugoslavia, April 1941, by Germany.
• World War II in Yugoslavia.
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1945–1992.
• Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980), President of Yugoslavia 1953–1980.
• Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1980s–1990s.
• Yugoslav Wars, 1991–2001.
---------- Serbia: ----------
• Socialist Republic of Serbia, 1944–1992 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
• Serbia and Montenegro: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1992–2003; State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, 2003–2006.
• Serbia, Republic of Serbia since 2006.
• Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), President of the Republic of Serbia 1991–1997; President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000.
---------- Kosovo: ----------
• Kosovo, an independent nation since 2008.
• Kosovo War, February 1998 – June 1999.
• History of Kosovo.
---------- Slovenia: ----------
• Illyrian Provinces, 1809–1814, an autonomous province of the Napoleonic French Empire.
• Kingdom of Illyria, 1816–1849, a crown land of the Austrian Empire.
• Illyrian movement, 19th Century.
• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, 1918.
• Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941 (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1918–1929).
• Socialist Republic of Slovenia, 1945–1991 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
• Slovenia, an independent nation since 1991.
• History of Slovenia.
---------- Croatia: ----------
• Kingdom of Croatia, 1527–1868, a province of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Austrian Empire.
• Kingdom of Slavonia, 1699–1868, a province of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Austrian Empire.
• Illyrian Provinces, 1809–1814, an autonomous province of the Napoleonic French Empire.
• Kingdom of Illyria, 1816–1849, a crown land of the Austrian Empire.
• Croatian National Revival, Illyrian movement, 19th Century.
• Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, 1868–1918.
• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, 1918.
• Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941 (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1918–1929).
• Croatian affairs in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• Socialist Republic of Croatia, 1943–1991 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
• Croatian Spring, late 1960s.
• Independence of Croatia, a process started in 1990.
• Croatia, an independent nation since 1991.
• Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999), President of Croatia 1990–1999.
• Croatian War of Independence, 1991–1995.
• History of Croatia.
• History of Croatia since 1995.
---------- Bosnia and Herzegovina: ----------
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, an independent nation since 1992.
  • Republika Srpska.
  • Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• History of the Bosniaks.
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877), "starting point of the Great Eastern Crisis".
• Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Austria-Hungary ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1878 and annexed it in 1908.
• Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1943–1992 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
• Alija Izetbegović (1925–2003), Chairman of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1990–1996; Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1996–1998 and February–October 2000.
• Bosnian War, April 1992 – December 1995.
---------- Montenegro: ----------
• Montenegrin nationalism.
• Socialist Republic of Montenegro, 1945–1992 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
• Serbia and Montenegro: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1992–2003; State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, 2003–2006.
• Montenegro, an independent nation since 2006.
• History of Montenegro.
---------- North Macedonia: ----------
• Macedonia (region).
• Macedonian nationalism.
• Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), founded 1893.
• Socialist Republic of Macedonia, 1944–1991 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
• North Macedonia, an independent nation since 1991.
• History of North Macedonia.
---------- Greece: ----------
• Greece.
• Ottoman Greece.
• Modern Greek Enlightenment.
• History of modern Greece.
• Greek War of Independence, 1821–1829.
• Greece in the Balkan Wars, 1912–1913.
• Megali Idea.
• National Schism.
• Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
• Salonica: 20th century and since (now called Thessaloniki).
• Greek Civil War, 1943–1949.
• Greek junta, Regime of the Colonels, 1967–1974.
---------- Bulgaria: ----------
• Bulgaria.
• Ottoman Bulgaria.
• Bulgarian National Revival.
• Bulgarian National Awakening.
• National awakening of Bulgaria.
• April Uprising of 1876, Bulgaria, part of the Great Eastern Crisis.
• Principality of Bulgaria, established 1878.
• Bulgarian Declaration of Independence, 5 October 1908, from the Ottoman Empire.
• Kingdom of Bulgaria, Tsardom of Bulgaria, 1908–1946.
• People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1946–1990; Republic of Bulgaria after 1990.
• History of Bulgaria.
---------- Romania: ----------
• National awakening of Romania.
• Romania.
• History of Romania.
• Principality of Wallachia.
• Principality of Moldavia.
• United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859–1881.
• Transylvania.
• Kingdom of Romania, 1881–1947.
• Socialist Republic of Romania, 1947–1989.
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1918–1989), General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party 1944–1954 and 1955–1965.
• Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989), General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party 1965–1989; President of Romania 1974–1989.
• Romanian Revolution, December 1989.
• History of Romania since 1989.
---------- Albania: ----------
• Albania, Republic of Albania, since 1992.
• History of Albania.
• Albania under the Ottoman Empire.
• Albanian National Awakening.
• Albanian nationalism.
• Albanian revolt of 1912.
• Independent Albania, 1912–1914.
• Principality of Albania, 1914–1925.
• Albanian Republic, 1925–1928.
• Albanian Kingdom (1928–1939).
• Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943).
• German occupation of Albania, 1943–1944.
• Hoxha I Government, Albania, 1944–1946.
• People's Socialist Republic of Albania, 1946–1992.
• Enver Hoxha (1908–1985).
• Fall of communism in Albania, began in 1990.
• Albanian Civil War, January–August 1997.

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