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The Yugoslav Dream Shattered: The Balkans Past and Present
Behind the “powder keg,” traces of a lost cosmopolitan world
Completed · 48 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Leung Man-tao: The Shattered Dream Reveals Humanity's Centuries-Old Dream and Reality Luo Xin: Yugoslavia Makes Us Curious about a More Distant and Profound World Lü Xiaoyu: A Journey through Time and a Renewed Feeling for the Real World Bai Lin: A Journey through Yugoslavia and a Moment of Reality 1. Beginnings: Geography and the Emergence of Yugoslav Peoples 2. Rise and Fall of South Slavic States: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia | New Masters I 3. Rise and Fall of South Slavic States: Serbia and Montenegro | New Masters II 4. From Summit to Abyss: What Was the Kosovo Crisis? 5. The “Eastern” Balkans: Yugoslav Entanglement with the Turks 6. The “Western” Balkans: Longing for Vienna and Dreaming of Venice 7. East or West? Two Kinds of Yugoslav 8. A Fresh Wind from Croatia: The Birth of the Yugoslav Dream 9. A Serbian Fire: From National Liberation to Nation-State 10. Mountain National Character: Tiny Montenegro and Larger-Than-Life Montenegrins 11. The Bosnian Crisis: New Masters, Still Surrounded by Enemies 12. Sorrowful Macedonia: Was This the True “Powder Keg”? 13. From the Balkan Wars into World War I: Glory Belongs to Yugoslavia 14. Kingdom of Yugoslavia: United in Appearance—Federation or Centralization? Bonus | Leung Man-tao × Bai Lin: Can Cosmopolitanism Still Be Realized Today? 15. Kingdom of Yugoslavia: From Dictatorship to Ethnic Conflict—Destined to Divide? 16. Dismembering Yugoslavia I: World War II and Another Existential Choice 17. Dismembering Yugoslavia II: World War or Civil War? Bonus | Nationalism, Art, Coffee, and Wine: How Do We Know the World and Others? 18. To Be or Not to Be? Yugoslavs in Epic 19. The World Is Turbulent, but the River of Life Flows On | Yugoslavs in Fiction 20. Tito's Yugoslavia: Socialist “Brotherhood and Unity” 21. Tito versus Stalin: Could Yugoslavia Do without the Soviet Big Brother? 22. Between East and West: What Is the Non-Aligned Movement's Legacy? 23. “No Permanent Friends”: Could Communism Independent of Moscow Survive? 24. Did “Alternative Communist” Reform Bring Yugoslavs Freedom? 25. Self-Management's Boomerang: Can Free Socialism Work? 26. Conservatism, Nationalism, and the New Left: Why Is Freedom So Difficult? 27. “Croatian Rhapsody”: National Hope or Yugoslav Lament? 28. “Coca-Cola Socialism”: A Truly Yugoslav Way of Life 29. “Hippie Communism”: Defeating Ideology with Love 30. Did the Third Way End after Tito? 31. How Did a European Socialist State Fall Apart? 32. Blaming “Ancient Ethnic Hatred”: The Yugoslav War Nobody Cared About 33. “Half City, Half Cemetery”: May Bosnia's Tragedy Never Repeat 34. Bosnia without Rescue: Banality of Evil or Ineffective Intervention? 35. Kosovo Returns: Is the Balkan Powder-Keg Tragedy Repeating? 36. Power Politics at Its Peak: When Will Kosovo Find Justice and Peace? 37. Balkan States “Outside the EU's Door”: Separate Paths after 2000? 38. “The Future after War”: Balkan Survival and Modern Crisis 39. Longing for Freedom and Ideals: Yugoslavs and Their Great Diaspora 40. Yugonostalgia: What Do People Miss When They Miss Yugoslavia? Conclusion: Flying in the Sky of “Borders” Bai Lin × dy: Seeking a Third Way in an Age Forced to Choose Sides