Albania as Dictatorship and DemocracyBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M09 8 - 749 pages Albania in the Twentieth Century: A History represents an unparalleled achievement in scholarship on Albania. Owen Pearson presents a complete account of the twentieth century in Albania, from its breakaway from the Ottoman Empire in 1908 to the Kosova War in 1999. In fascinating detail, Pearson chronicles the monarchy of King Zog and the wartime period where Albania became a battleground for the Greek, Italian and German armies. He describes Enver Hoxha's seizure of power, the country's fraught relationship with the post-Stalin Soviet Union and Maoist China's fraternal embrace of Albania, all leading to near-total isolationism and inevitable economic collapse. Pearson concludes with the genocide of Kosovar Albanians at the hands of the Serbian regime of Milosevic that characterised the last decade of twentieth century Albania. Comprising original research, and excerpts from rare Albanian sources, this is a compendium of primary source material that provides a year-by-year and sometimes day-by-day account of Albania's modern history. It is an essential reference for all those interested in Albanian Balkan and Eastern European history. I.B.Tauris in association with the Center for Albanian Studies. I.B.Tauris in association with the Center for Albanian Studies. |
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... Commission . The Secretary - General also requested the four governments con- cerned to accord to all members of the Commission and their staff all the privileges and immunities necessary for the exercise of the Commission's func- tions ...
... Commission that the Albanian govern- ment would not co - operate in any way with the temporary frontier commission which the Security Council had decided to send to Greece . The Albanian rep- resentative said that under the terms of ...
... Commission of Investigation . The United States representative , Senator Warren Austin as the first speaker in a debate on the report of the Balkans Commission , moved a resolution that the Council should appoint a permanent Commission ...
Contents
CHAPTER ONE 1946 I | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO 1947 | 135 |
CHAPTER THREE 1948 | 251 |
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