Table of Contents

The nature of Ottoman rule and the rise of the great pashaliks; political and cultural moves to consolidate the Albanian National Movement; Albanian independence and the end of Ottoman rule; the reign of Price Wied and the First World War; political instability and the June revolution; the consolidation of Zogu's regime and the Italian ascendancy; the Second World War and the founding of the Albanian Communist Party; "building socialism" under Yugoslav and Soviet Tutelage; the retreat into isolation; the end of communism and the path to democratic pluralism/