CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Obrien, Tara Ashley |
|---|---|
| Title | Manufacturing Homogeneity in the Modern Albanian Nation-Building Project |
| Summary | The Albanian state building process achieved its success in 1912 with the National Congress and declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire. The nation-building process, however, had achieved minimal success thus far and would strengthen much later. As of 1912, Albanian national identity was fragmented, possibley non-existent in much of the new country; the state existed, the nation did not. The International Commission Correspondence, a border demarcation commission sent by the Congress of London, will provide further proof as to the political and ideological disunity within Albania during the first few years of the state’s existence. This state of disunity and ideological fragmentation would remain until the nation-building project of the communist period. The communists would continue the nation-building process begun decades before with their mass education program and successful control of the media. They would achieve greater success and reach larger segments of the population than any other regime before, thus creating Albanian national communist identity. |
| Supervisor | Professor Kochanowicz, Jacek and Professor Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/obrien_tara.pdf |
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