A comprehensive and even-handed history of Yugoslavia
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“Alex does a masterful job of detailing the history of Yugoslavia, mostly starting around the outset of the 19th century and moving forward from there. Alex couches the analysis in a play-by-play retelling of historic events, but he does so mindful of the events that would dominate the history of Yugoslavia in popular imagination and memory (namely: TIto's Yugoslavia and the wars of the 1990s) and attempts to draw out the complexities that were the hallmark of Yugoslav history.
The analysis here is deep, historic, and honest. It doesn't rely on the "ancient hatreds dividing ethnic cousins in the Balkans" lazy popular myth that so many people repeat when discussing the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. It doesn't rely upon the myth that only Tito could have kept an otherwise disparate pack of squabling backwards peoples together. Instead, the History of Yugoslavia is a thoughtful, well-researched, and in-depth look at what happened, why it happened, what were the outside and inside forces at play, and why it led the Balkans to be a place that Winston Churchill famously stated "produces more history than it can consume." I highy recommend this podcast to anyone who is interested in the history of any of the Yugoslav republics, Yugoslavia itself, the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire, World War 1, World War 2, slavic history, communist history, of world history in general.”Read full review »
DavidJFaber via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/11/18
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“Alex,
I love your show! I’ve listened to it twice, and it was just as good the second time XD I started listening while traveling in Croatia, and it has inspired me to want to travel to the rest of the Balkans as well.
Please keep going! Can’t wait to continue the story. Much love from...”Read full review »
kate_from_california via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/16/22
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“Love this podcast. Well balanced history but we are just getting to WW2 and no more narrative episodes. Is it done ?”
dandubbs via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/21/22
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“A well researched podcast dealing with the very complicated history of the Balkans and countries comprising the former Yugoslavia.”
Duci78 via Apple Podcasts ·
Netherlands ·
07/22/23
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