Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideNYU Press, 1999 M03 1 - 256 pages Traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389 |
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... enemy and the confidence in one's own strength to annihilate the enemy instead. The modern age has added another motive for genocide: the utopian promise of a perfect society through the elimination of the groups accused of preventing ...
... enemy. I frequently use comparisons between Serbia (or Montenegro) and Croatia in this study to highlight the differences between Eastern and Western Christian cultures. Such comparisons are particularly suitable, because we are dealing ...
... enemies conspire to annihilate them; and that the time had come to act aggressively to avenge past wrongs and become the dominant power in the area. All genocidal campaigns, whether guided by nationalist or universalist myths,
... enemy. All of this is best formulated in the characters of Bishop Danilo and his heroes as presented in The Mountain Wreath, where Njegoš's genius vividly and accurately describes the drama of the Serbian people in their fall and ...
... enemy against domestic enemies also occurred under the Austrian occupation during the First World War, as Milovan Djilas relates: We Montenegrins did not hold a grudge against the enemy alone, but against one another as well. Indeed, our ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |