Textes et documents d’histoire albanaise

Robert Elsie

Textes et documents d’histoire albanaise
1990 à ce jour

1994 Rexhep Qosja: The Albanian Question and its Solution Kosovar intellectual figure Rexhep Qosja provides an overview of the Albanian question in Yugoslavia, written during the last decade of Serb rule in Kosovo.

1998 Jusuf Vrioni: Back to Tirana, 1943-1947 Jusuf Vrioni was an Albanian nobleman and a well-known literary translator who was raised in Paris. He made the mistake of returning to Albania during the Second World War and was not able to get away when the communists took power. In this chapter from his memoirs, he describes the atmosphere immediately after the war and the moment of his arrest.

2002 Miranda Vickers: The Cham Issue British writer and analyst Miranda Vickers presents a lucid overview of the issue of the Chams, the Albanian minority expelled from Greece during the First and Second World Wars and still not allowed to return.

2002 Dayrell R. Oakley-Hill: An Englishmen in the Service of King Zog British Colonel Oakley-Hill was involved in organising the Albanian gendarmerie in the 1930s. In this chapter from his memoirs, he describes the situation in the country under King Zog.

2008 Oliver Jens Schmitt: Scanderbeg: an Uprising and its Leader In 2008, Swiss historian Oliver Schmitt published a scholarly and highly controversial biography of the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg. The concluding chapter of the book, given here, provides a synthesis of his interpretation of Scanderbeg as a tragic figure.

2008 Declaration of Independence of Kosova After five centuries as part of the Ottoman Empire and 87 years under Serbian rule, Kosova (Kosovo) declared its independence in February 2008. Given here is the text of the declaration as read out in Parliament in Prishtina.

2010 Kolec Topalli: Communist Persecution in Albanian Studies Albanian linguist Kolec Topalli provides an overview of suffering and terror in Albanian intellectual circles during the Stalinist dictatorship. He was one of its victims.

 

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