Kosova në kryqëzim gjeopolitik: Shqipëria, Jugosllavia dhe fuqitë e mëdha 1945-1948
In: Historical Studies; No. 1-2 (2021): Historical Studies; 229-260 ; Studime Historike; No. 1-2 (2021): Studime Historike, 2023
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Since the fall of communism, the issue of the Albanian Labor Party’s stance toward the question of Kosovo has been hotly debated both in Albanian academia and public discourse. Fueled either by nationalism and lack of historical knowledge many historians, depending on their ideological or political affiliation have speculated on why the Albanian Government did not present its claims on Kosovo, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1946. By using archival sources of different provenance, the article “Kosovo in Geopolitical Crossroads: Albania, Yugoslavia and the Great Powers 1945-1948” intervenes within this controversial debate with the aim of shedding more light on it. The introduction of this study explains the different competing narratives that circulate today and, approaching the whole matter from a counterfactual standpoint, it tries to define whether or not the Albanian communists did have chances to successfully claim Kosovo in the international forums that established the postwar European order. Afterwards, the article expounds the argument in two main parts. Its first part deals 1) with the forced union of Kosovo with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; 2) with the attitudes of Albania, Soviet Union, USA, and Great Britain on the issue of Kosovo, in the period January 1945-June 1946. The article argues that the problem of Kosovo did not become part of an international agenda. The powers of the Antifascist Alliance did consider the question of Kosovo an internal matter of Yugoslavia and left its “official solution” in the hands of the two concerned parties: the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and Communist Party of Albania (CPA). The second part of the article focuses on the problem of Kosovo in the period June 1946-June 1948. During these two years, the relations between the two communist parties moved from that of extremely close friendship to their unraveling and total break. After the conclusion of the Paris Peace Conference, the Albanian and Yugoslav leadership envisioned that the Kosovo question ...
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Kosova në kryqëzim gjeopolitik: Shqipëria, Jugosllavia dhe fuqitë e mëdha 1945-1948
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Kaba, Hamit |
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Zeitschrift: | Historical Studies; No. 1-2 (2021): Historical Studies; 229-260 ; Studime Historike; No. 1-2 (2021): Studime Historike, 2023 |
Veröffentlichung: | Historical Studies ; Studime Historike, 2023 |
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