Today, I chat with Chris Klimowitz, an expert on Albanian history, about the history of Yugoslavia’s small neighbour to the Southwest up to the end of the interwar period.
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Episode 41 – Assassination Round 2
In 1928, the political crisis in Yugoslavia reached a boiling point it would not be able to return from, as blood was spilled on the Parliament floor. (To clarify, there is no Round 1, you haven’t missed an episode, this is just the second major assassination of the narrative).
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Episode 40 – Corruption and Gridlock
In 1925, Yugoslavia’s two great rivals, Stjepan Radić and Nikola Pašić, finally buried the hatchet and formed a government together. Then they remembered why they hated each other in the first place, and the government got nothing done.
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Episode 39.5 – An Interview with Aleksandar Brezar
Recently I sat down with Aleksandar Brezar, co-host of the Sarajevo Calling podcast on politics and current affairs in the Balkans. Hope you enjoy our conversation.
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Episode 39 – Parliamentary Horsetrading
With the 1921 Constitution passed, would Yugoslav politics be able to settle down? Of course not.
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Episode 38 – The Constituent Assembly
Any hopes that Yugoslavs would come together to write a consensus constitution for their newly united state were swiftly dashed.
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Episode 37 – the 1920 Elections
In November 1920, Yugoslavs chose 419 deputies to represent them in a Constituent Assembly. Their choices were quite a surprise.
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Episode 36 – The Parties
In today’s episode, we rattle through the various political parties set to compete for power in the newly united Kingdom – as well as those who want to tear the whole thing down….
The Trailer for the King Peter film
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Episode 35 – A New Country
After a long delay, here at last is the new episode! Today, we discuss the early foreign policy of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the internal measures taken to make unification a reality.
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Episode 34.5 – An Interview with John Paul Newman
Today I talk to Dr John Paul Newman of Maynooth University about his book, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War, and the divisions within interwar Yugoslav society that resulted from the various difference experiences of the First World War and what it meant.
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