Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
I. Introduction
Methodology
Context, Ideology, Adaptation
II. Intellectuals
The Russian Connection and the Geography of Revolution
Models and Master Texts
Balkan Disciples
Intellectuals and Political Systems
Social Descent and Professional Integration
III. The Ambiguities of Modernity (Serbia)
Some Notes on the Historiography
The Ideological Roots of Serbian Socialism
Modernization and its Antecedents
A Moral World Imperiled
The Mission: Saving Serbdom
The Individual and Society
The Radicals and the Nation
A l’attaque
The Railway
The Agrarian Radicals
A Popular Party
The Watershed
A Church and an Army
Slavophilism
To the People
Manipulating the Past
Heading for Confrontation
Constitutional Philosophy
In Power
Legacies of Radicalism
IV. Caught up in the Contradictions of Modernity (Bulgaria)
The Historiography on the Schism
Bulgarian Socialism
Suiuz vs. Partiia: The Priority of Political or Economic Organization?
Blagoev vs. the Narodniks
Constructing the Social subject: a Party with two Voices
Modernization
Mentalities
The Profile of the Party
Flirting with the Peasant
“Obshto Delo”
“Alarm for Ghosts--Our Apostasy or their Nonsense”
Historical Materialism not Economic Determinism
The Debate on Private Ownership
The Debate on Party Membership
The Predicament of Bulgaria
Theory and Practice
How to Make Sense of Broad Socialism
Rethinking Bulgarian Politics
V. Modernity Without Socialism (Greece)
Historiographical Notes
Greek Nationalism: the Imaginary of Superiority
Some Particularities of Greek Socio-Economic Development
Intellectuals: the Discrete Temptation of Submission
The Liberals: Progress, Expansion and Order
The National Schism: Metamorphoses of Political Polarization
“The Promise of the Impossible Revolution”
VI. Epilogue
Divergent Paths Towards Modernity?
Legitimacy and Mass Politics
Socialism
Politics and the State
Legacies
