The Civil Wars in Yugoslavia and Greece

Stanley G. Payne

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511820465.013

9 - The Civil Wars in Yugoslavia and Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Stanley G. Payne

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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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Information: Civil War in Europe, 1905–1949 , pp. 208 - 224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511820465.013 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2011

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