Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East Europe, this volume explores the history of Yugoslavia from creation to dissolution.

Introduction Dejan Djokic and James Ker-Lindsay 1. Yugoslavism in the Early Twentieth Century: The Politics of the Yugoslav Committee Connie Robinson 2. The Great War and the Yugoslav Grassroots: Popular Mobilisation in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-18 Mark Cornwall 3. Forging a United Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: The Legacy of the First World War and the 'Invalid Question' John Paul Newman 4. National Mobilisation in the 1930s: The Emergence of the 'Serb Question' in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Dejan Djokic 5. Ethnic Violence in Occupied Yugoslavia: Mass Killing from Above and Below Tomislav Dulic 6. Yugoslavia in Exile: The London-based Wartime Government, 1941-45 Stevan K. Pavlowitch 7. Reassessing Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-90: The Case of Croatia Dejan Jovic 8. The Break-Up of Yugoslavia: The Role of Popular Politics NebojSa Vladisavljevic 9. Popular Mobilisation in the 1990s: Nationalism, Democracy and the Slow Decline of the MiloSevic Regime Florian Bieber 10. The 'Final' Yugoslav Issue: The Evolution of International Thinking on Kosovo, 1998-2005 James Ker-Lindsay 11. Coming to Terms with the Past: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in the Post-Yugoslav Lands Jasna Dragovic-Soso and Eric Gordy

Dejan Djokic is Senior Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London. His publications include Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia (2007) and Nikola PaSic and Ante Trumbic: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (2010).

James Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank EFG Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also the author of Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans.