The Macedonian question : The politics of mutation
Part of : Balkan studies : biannual publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies ; Vol.27, No.1, 1986, pages 157-172
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The Yugoslav solution to the pre-war Macedonian question, aimed at asurgical-type operation for the mutation of the indigenous Slav populationof Yugoslav Macedonia into ethnic “Macedonians”. This process involvedthe establishment of a federative state within Yugoslavia, the transformationof the local spoken idiom into a literary language, the establishment of anindependent Church, the rewriting of the history of Macedonia and, finally,the formulation of a “Great Idea”.For ever four decades, this process has made significant progress withinthe S. R. of Macedonia. The same cannot be said, however of attempts attransplanting the mutation experiment into Bulgaria, Greece, and the Macedoniandiaspora, where prevailing social and political conditions, as well as varied ethnological structures, were hardly conductive to a repetition of the exercise.
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Μακεδονικό ζήτημα
