Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideHurst, 1999 - 233 pages Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's expansionist impulses to Serbian national mythology. The dominant myth - that of "Heavenly Serbia" - appeared soon after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. It attributed the Serb's defeat by the Turks and the loss of the medieval Serbian state to the Serb's preference for moral salvation over military victory. By emphasizing their commitment to the heavenly kingdom and promising an eventual restoration of the Serbian empire, this myth helped the Serbs to bear their centuries-long domination by a foreign power. Though they ultimately shed the Turkish yoke and regained statehood in the nineteenth century, the Serbs, according to Anzulovic, retained this central myth in the form of feelings of superiority to their neighbors, and a sense of destiny ordaining them to become the dominant power in the Balkans. The myth has been perpetuated by political and religious leaders, historians, novelists, and artists, and has found acceptance abroad as well. |
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Page 59
... role than in the West , the pop- ularity of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin with the Russians and Njegoš's Mountain Wreath with the Serbs and Montenegrins is unparalleled . Many people from all social strata in the respective countries know ...
... role than in the West , the pop- ularity of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin with the Russians and Njegoš's Mountain Wreath with the Serbs and Montenegrins is unparalleled . Many people from all social strata in the respective countries know ...
Page 128
... role in mobilizing Serbs for war . Poems , novels , and plays were even more effective in spreading the fear of ... roles in the campaign for a Greater Serbia , in which economists were conspicuous by their absence . Most promi- nent was ...
... role in mobilizing Serbs for war . Poems , novels , and plays were even more effective in spreading the fear of ... roles in the campaign for a Greater Serbia , in which economists were conspicuous by their absence . Most promi- nent was ...
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... role in the Serbian aggression than did the Balkan highlands . Urban criminals , such as Željko Ražnatović " Arkan " and Dragan Vasiljković , better known as " Captain Dra- gan , " particularly excelled in brutality . Ražnatović had ...
... role in the Serbian aggression than did the Balkan highlands . Urban criminals , such as Željko Ražnatović " Arkan " and Dragan Vasiljković , better known as " Captain Dra- gan , " particularly excelled in brutality . Ražnatović had ...
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Dinaric Highlanders and Their Songs | 45 |
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian | 69 |
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