The Strange Politics of Federative Ideas in East-Central Europe

Case, Holly

doi:10.1086/672531

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“…102 This episode of Britain's 'developmental imperialism' no doubt schooled South African administrators in the possibilities of reconfiguring settler dominance. 103 Meanwhile, federalism occupied a significant place in debates on the left in Europe after 1945; 104 even Hannah Arendt advocated a federal multi-ethnic solution in Israel-Palestine. 105 Anti-colonial visions for change also identified the democratic potential of federalism.…”

Section: Emerged As An Important Experiments In Whatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, ‘Development’ and the Bantustans

Evans¹

2021

Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century

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This article examines the global dynamics of late colonialism and how these informed South African apartheid. More specifically, it locates the programmes of mass relocation and bantustan 'self-government' that characterised apartheid after 1959 in relation to three key dimensions. Firstly, the article explores the global circulation of idioms of 'development' and trusteeship in the first half of the twentieth century and its significance in shaping segregationist policy; secondly, it situates bantustan 'selfgovernment' in relation to the history of decolonisation and the partitions and federations that emerged as late colonial solutions; and, thirdly, it locates the tightening of rural village planning in the bantustans after 1960 in relation to the elaboration of anti-colonial liberation struggles, repressive southern African settler politics and the Cold War. It argues that, far from developing policies that were at odds with the global 'wind of change', South African apartheid during the 1960s and 1970s reflected much that was characteristic about late colonial strategy.

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Section: Emerged As An Important Experiments In Whatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, ‘Development’ and the Bantustans

Evans¹

2021

Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century

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“…In 1906, Ariel Popovici from Transylvanian made a proposal for possible joint future of the Austro-Hungarian nations: the United States of Greater Austria (Popovici 1906;Case 2013). Emperor Franz Joseph I adopted the plan in 1910 in one of his last attempts to save the empire.…”

Section: Styria: the Political And Social Settingmentioning

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“…The perception of Maister has always corresponded to the political and economic framework of evaluation. Even though twentieth-century Slovenian historiography was marked by nation building and state building, this actually corresponded to four different multiethnic states or federal structures: the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria-Hungary (from the Middle Ages to 1918), Yugoslavia (twice: from 1918Yugoslavia (twice: from to 1941Yugoslavia (twice: from , and again from 1945Yugoslavia (twice: from to 1991, and finally the European Union (see Case 2013). During the Second World War, Lower Styria was annexed by Germany.…”

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Social and Cultural Relocations of Rudolf Maister. About the Political Mythology of Lower Styria

Simonič¹

2018

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The article deals with the historical circumstances of the life and work of General Rudolf Maister and the social perception of his actions through the 20th century when he transformed himself from the controversial and peripheral personalities of Slovenian society into one of the greatest political and military heroes of the Slovenian state.Članek obravnava zgodovinske okoliščine življenja in delovanja generala Rudolfa Maistra in družbeno percepcijo njegovih dejanj skozi 20. stoletje, ko se je iz sporne in obrobne osebnosti slovenske družbe preoblikoval v enega največjih političnih in vojaških junakov slovenske države.

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“…as a strategy for the redistribution of state power through the reorganization of political space, federalism suited the purposes of multiple and often mutually contradictory political movements, from the revolutionary left to the conservative right. 2 To trace a distinctly socialist genealogy of Balkan federalism, we have to first conceptualize and categorize these various intellectual strands in order to identify those from which Serbian socialism was derived, and against which it was pitted.…”

Section: Federalism In the Long Nineteenth Century Federalism And Modmentioning

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“…If, as Holly Case has recently argued, the two overriding concerns of federalist thought in the long nineteenth century were securing state sovereignty over a discrete territory and overcoming ethnic antagonisms in nationally heterogeneous regions, the ways in which federal projects addressed these twin concerns depended on the model of sovereignty upon which they were built. 3 Building on Case's conclusion, this article proposes four typologies of federalist projects operative in Central and eastern europe from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of World War I. These are (1) revolutionary-republican, (2) imperial-reformist, (3) imperial-irredentist, and (4) revolutionary-social.…”

Section: Federalism In the Long Nineteenth Century Federalism And Modmentioning

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Imagining the Balkans as a Space of Revolution: The Federalist Vision of Serbian Socialism, 1870–1914

Robertson

2017

East European Politics and Societies

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Between the years 1870 and 1914, leftist intellectuals in the Kingdom of Serbia theorized and promoted a project of Balkan Federation as a strategic priority in the social, economic, and political transformation of the region. This article offers a genealogy of these federalist ideas and places them in dialogue with rival projects of regional unification in the Balkans and Eastern Europe during the long nineteenth century. It begins by developing a typology of federalist projects in Europe, categorizing these according to the underlying models of sovereignty upon which they were founded. I identify four categories: revolutionary-republican, imperial-reformist, imperial-irredentist, and revolutionary-social. Instead of organizing these federalisms according to their authors’ ideological commitments (socialist, nationalist, pan-Slavic) or their geographic scope (Balkan, Danubian), the article argues that examining their respective models of sovereignty offers intellectual historians a more productive approach to identify the unexpected convergences and divergences of federalist projects during this period. The article then moves into a discussion of the development of Serbian socialist ideas of Balkan Federation, beginning first with the work of Svetozar Marković (1846–1875) and then turning to the writings of the fin de siècle Social Democratic Party in the decade before World War I. Situating this genealogy of socialist Balkan federalism in its broader European intellectual milieu, I use the above typology to identify the ways in which Serbian socialists converged and diverged from contemporary federalist projects, including the reformist ideas of the Austro-Marxists, the irredentist strategy of the Serbian Progressive Party, and the republican ideas of Karel Kautsky.

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The Strange Politics of Federative Ideas in East-Central Europe

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, ‘Development’ and the Bantustans

Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, ‘Development’ and the Bantustans

Social and Cultural Relocations of Rudolf Maister. About the Political Mythology of Lower Styria

Imagining the Balkans as a Space of Revolution: The Federalist Vision of Serbian Socialism, 1870–1914

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