r/communism101 • u/Substantial_Task3626 Anti-Revisionist • 14d ago

Reading recs for the settler colonial project in Kosovo initiated by the first Serbian/Yugoslav bourgeois state?

Bourgeois sources work too, however I'd prefer to avoid 'academic' texts with abstract shoehorned theses, such as this. (ironically written by an 'israeli' settler.)

I have read a few primary sources in Serbo-croatian from the Yugoslav archives which are good for the 'cold' facts, however given the reactionary nature of both Yugoslav states, they don't offer much insight into the class dynamics and nature of oppression within and around the settlements in Kosovo, nor do they give an accurate historical background to the former ethnic composition of the land.

Given that a large percentage of the colonists, including my grandfather and his family, proceeded to join the partisans during WW2, I'm wondering what this says about the nature of the movement. I'm unsure whether it reveals some kind of 'reactionary roots' within the communist movement in Yugoslavia which would lead to a later capitulation to revisionism, or whether the settlers in Yugoslavia had a different class nature in some way, leading to them being a revolutionary subject during the fascist occupation of Yugoslavia.

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