Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chronology of Events
- Glossary of Political Acronyms
- Introduction Revolution and Civil War as Forms of Conflict
- Part One World War I and An Era of Internal Conflict, 1905???1935
- Part Two The Conflict In Spain, 1931???1939
- Part Three Civil War and Internal Violence in The Era of World War II
- 8 The Multiple Wars of Europe, 1939???1945
- 9 The Civil Wars in Yugoslavia and Greece
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
9 - The Civil Wars in Yugoslavia and Greece
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chronology of Events
- Glossary of Political Acronyms
- Introduction Revolution and Civil War as Forms of Conflict
- Part One World War I and An Era of Internal Conflict, 1905???1935
- Part Two The Conflict In Spain, 1931???1939
- Part Three Civil War and Internal Violence in The Era of World War II
- 8 The Multiple Wars of Europe, 1939???1945
- 9 The Civil Wars in Yugoslavia and Greece
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
The two European countries that experienced full-scale civil war during or immediately after World War II were Yugoslavia and Greece. In both cases an analogy existed with the radicalization, breakdown, and civil strife that attended the end of World War I in eastern and central Europe, all of which merely reemphasizes the uniqueness of the Spanish case, in which civil war erupted in peacetime, initially without any direct exogenous influence or intervention.
The cases of Yugoslavia and Greece were contiguous geographically and chronologically, and both can be analyzed within the rubric of Communist/anti-Communist civil wars. Moreover, both were predominantly agrarian and underdeveloped countries, with a social basis in small family farms, but the parallels or similarities end there. All the other factors – politics, foreign policy, other aspects of social and economic structure, and the role of ethnicity – varied considerably. Because of these differences, the two cases must be discussed separately.
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- Civil War in Europe, 1905–1949 , pp. 208 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011