The Albanians in history; Albanian-Yugoslav relations during and after the Second World War; Soviet-Yugoslav-Albanian relations; a republican in all but name; we want to be equal - Kosovo, 1981-90; the fall of communism in Albania and in Kosovo; post-communism.
Paulin Kola was one of the founders, in 1990, of Albania's first opposition party, then served as an Albanian diplomat. He has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and is now with the BBC World Service.
'A... a valuable work, clearly written, based on serious research, which A... contributes in a new way to the analysis of a large slice of recent Balkan history. It will of course be of interest to people concerned with current problems in Kosovo and Macedonia, but it will also have a more lasting place on the library shelves, even when (or if) those problems are resolved.' -Noel Malcom'A... a comprehensive, complex and coherent narrative history of the Albanian-inhabited lands of today's Kosovo and Albania from ancient times until today, with special weight given to their internal developments as well as their bilateral and international political relations and diplomacy in their state-building processes in the twentieth century.' -Stephanie Schwander-Sievers, SSEES, University College London
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