DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC & ORIENTAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA PROGRAM ON ORDER, CONFLICT & VIOLENCE, YALE UNIVERSITY

CIVIL WARS STUDY GROUP

Scrambling for Power in the Balkans 1940s

War and Political Transformation

Thessaloniki, May 31st - June 3rd, 2012 University of Macedonia (Hall 14)

Thursday, May 31st

17.15: Opening Marantzidis Nikos (Head of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies,
University of Macedonia)

17.30 - 18.30: Key Note Speaker Veremis Thanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) 18.30 - 19.00 Coffee Break 19.00 - 21.30: Foreign Policy and International Relations I
Chairman: Kalyvas Stathis (Yale University) Bojinov Voin (Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Between Understanding and War. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1937-1941 Chourchoulis Dionysios (Queen Mary University of London), Great Power Involvement as a Factor in Political Transformation: Soviet Interest in the Hinterland and the Coastal Areas of the Balkans, 1939-1944 Klapsis Antonis (Panteion University), Resistance and Civil War in Occupied Greece: British Priorities and Strategic Dilemmas Dragomir Elena (University of Helsinki), Constructing Romanias Pro-Soviet State Security Strategy, 1944-1947 Stefanidis Ioannis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Incitement to Violence: Wartime British Propaganda and the Question of Armed Resistance in the Balkans

Friday, June 1st

09.00 - 11.00: Civil Wars and the Communist Takeover I
Chairman: Marushiokova Elena (Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies and Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Pappas Takis (University of Macedonia), Preventing Communism but Failing to Deter Civil War:

Greece, April-December 1944 Sfetas Spyridon (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), From Kingdom of Bulgaria to Peoples Republic of Bulgaria, 1944-1948: The Communist Takeover in Bulgaria, the Concept of Peoples Republic and the Personality of Georgi Dimitrov in the Contemporary Bulgarian Historiography Fuek Marko (University of Zagreb), Peoples Youth of Croatia and the Consolidation of Power: Postwar Elections and Main Opposition Parties Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Political Transformation in Civil War Greece, 1943-1949: A Deviation from Western European Model 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 13.30: Civil Wars and the Communist Takeover II
Chairman: Pettifer James (Oxford University) Sokolovic Dzemal (Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia), Yugoslavia and Bosnia: Countries Between Two Curtains and Two Aspirations Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Aspects of the Civil Conflicts in the Peoples Republic of Macedonia, 1944-1949 Strazimiri Zana (University of Tirana), Features of Class Struggle in Post War Albania Marantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia), The Greek Civil War and the International Communist System

17.00 - 19.00: Minorities and Ethnic Groups I

Chairman: Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Vrabiescu Ioana (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), Early Communist Roma Assimilation Politics in Romania Marushiokova Elena - Popov Vesselin (Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies and Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Gypsy/Roma Organisations and State Policy towards Gypsies/Roma in Bulgaria, 1945-1950 Ionescu Magdalena (Universitatea Valahia, Trgovite), The Romanian Discourse on Hungarian Minority from Romania in the Relationships between the Peoples Republic of Romania and Hungarian Peoples Republic Tsoutsoumbis Spyros (University of Manchester), Ethnic Collaboration and Violence: Reappraising the Case of the Muslim Chams of Thesprotia, 1940-1945

19.00 - 19.30 Coffee Break 19.30 - 21.30: Minorities and Ethnic Groups II
Chairman: Sokolovic Dzemal (Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia) Boci Sonila (Institute of History, Center for Albanological Studies, Tirana), Efforts to Establish

the Balkan Joint Staff and Greek Minority in Albania Sage Steven (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center), Ethnic Policy and the Jews in 1940s Bulgaria Mamarelis Argyris (London School of Economics) - Papadimitriou Dimitris (University of Manchester), The Battallion of Ottomans of DSE Tsivos Kostas (Charles University), The Slav-Macedonian Refugees in Eastern and Central Europe after the Greek Civil War

saTurday, June 2nd

09.00 - 11.00: Resistance and Collaboration
Chairman: Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Kalogrias Vaios (University of Mainz), Mihailovi - Zervas: A Comparative Study of Resistance

and Collaboration in Serbia and Greece, 1941-1944 Bitunjac Martina (Humboldt University of Berlin), War Tactic and Propaganda of the Resistance Movement in the Independent State of Croatia Muraru Andrei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University), Collaboration on Trial. Romanian Nationalists vs. Communists in the Post War Justice Gogas Themistoklis (Epirus Institute of Technology), Linguistic Variety and Collaboration 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 13.30: Foreign Policy and International Relations II
Chairman: Veremis Thanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Makris-Staikos Petros St. (lawer-author), The Post-War Greek Frontiers in the Balkans and the Foreign Office, 1943-1945. An Approach Dordanas Stratos N. (University of Western Macedonia), Policy and War in the Post-War Balkans. Germany and the Greco-Yugoslavian Issue at the Beginning of the 1950s Djordjevi Jovanovi Jovanka (Institute for Balkan Studies of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), The Ideological Brotherhood of Greeks and Yugoslavs, 1948-1950 Ploumidis Spyros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), The New Megali Idea in Greece, 1943-1946: Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Peasantist Nationalism

17.00 - 18.30: Parties and Political Institutions I

Chairman: Botsiou Konstantina (University of Peloponnese) Pettifer James (Oxford University), Hoxhas Partisans after 1944: A Guerilla Army versus a Governing Party? Kazamias Alexander (Coventry University), The Papagos Solution, 1948-1951: The Specter of Far Right Dictatorship over the Greek Civil War Kaba Hamit (Institute of History, Center for Albanological Studies, Tirana), The Fate of Albanian Monarchy at the End of World War

18.30 - 19.00 Coffee Break 19.00 - 20.30: Parties and Political Institutions II
Chairman: Sage Steven (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center) Botsiou Konstantina (University of Peloponnese), A New Lease of Life: The Impact of War and

Civil War on the Greek Monarchy, 1941-1949 Baltsiotis Lambros (Panteion University), Expulsions and Deprivations of Citizenship during the 1940s Greece: The Reduction of the Internal Enemy Pupuleku Nertila (University of Tirana), The Communist Party of Albania

sunday, June 3rd

09.00 - 11.30: Churches
Chairman: Bojinov Voin (Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Tsironis Theodosis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Church of Greece and the National

Intentions for the Operation of the Theological School of Thessaloniki, 1942 Ognyanova Irina (Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Catholic Church and the Croatian Nationalism during World War II and the First Post-War Years, 1941-1953 Naxidou Eleonora (Democritus University of Thrace), Ecclesiastical Organization and National Ideology under a Communist Regime: The Case of the Peoples Republic of Macedonia, 1945-1967 Skura Gentiana (University of Tirana), The Role of Religious Institutions during the Reign of King Zog and World War II Skoulidas Elias (Epirus Institute of Technology), Bishops in Exile: Orthodox Church of Albania and Greek Irredentism 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee Break 12.00 - 14.00 Round Table: Greek Policies regarding the Balkans in the 1940s
Chairman: Marantzidis Nikos (University of Macedonia) Kondis Basil (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Hatzivassiliou Evanthis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Michailidis Iakovos (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki)
Scientific Committee: IATRIDES John O. (Southern Connecticut State University), KALYVAS Stathis (Yale University), KONDIS Basil (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), MARANTZIDIS Nikos (University of Macedonia), MICHAILIDIS Iakovos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Organizing Committee: KALYVAS Stathis, MARANTZIDIS Nikos, PASCHALOUDI Eleni, SKOULIDAS Elias, TSEKOU Katerina Sponsors: JOHN S. LATSIS PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA EPIKENTRO PUBLISHERS