The Salonika Attentats 1903
Bugarska i Sjeverna Makedonija
089512
Agency of Emigration - Institute of National History
Skopje
2003
14,5×20,5
meki
202
engleski
Cijena: 45,00 EUR
his work by the prominent Macedonian historian Dr. Krste Bitoski is a highly valuable historical study that offers a detailed scholarly insight into the dramatic events leading up to the Ilinden Uprising. Ljupcho Lumakovski's excellent English translation was published to mark the major 100th anniversary of the uprising. Across 203 pages of text, enriched with additional pages of visual plates, the author reconstructs with meticulous historiographical precision the activities of the radical group of Macedonian revolutionaries known as the 'Gemidzhii' (The Salonika Attentats). The book chronologically and thematically traces their ideological formation, the planning and execution of a series of coordinated bomb attacks against Ottoman institutions in Salonika in April 1903, as well as the severe reprisals, arrests, and trials that followed. The edition features a well-structured table of contents divided into three major sections (socio-economic preconditions, the actions themselves, and the aftermath and consequences of the attacks), scholarly footnotes, and valuable historical photographs and portraits of key figures. The book is essential reading and a highly valuable collector's item for historians, Balkan studies researchers, and all institutional and private libraries focused on the history of Southeastern Europe and early 20th-century liberation movements.
