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On ‘Strategic Frontiers’: Debating the Borders of the Post-Second World War Balkans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2018

THEODORA DRAGOSTINOVA
THEODORA DRAGOSTINOVA*
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Department of History, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 Annie & John Glenn Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210; dragostinova.1@osu.edu
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Abstract

This article examines debates between Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia concerning the post-Second World War Balkan borders in preparation for the Paris Peace Conference of 1946. While for most of the twentieth century Greece and Yugoslavia were close allies united in their position against revisionist Bulgaria, after 1944 the communist affiliations of the new Bulgarian and Yugoslav governments determined the rapprochement between the latter two states. As various proposals for border revisions and the possibility of a Balkan Federation were discussed, the Balkans became a prime battlefield in the emerging Cold War split between the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States. By examining a period of extreme political fluidity between 1944 and 1947, this article explores how the legacy of long-standing national tensions combined with the new political realities after the Second World War created the current borders of Bulgaria, Greece and the (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , August 2018 , pp. 387 - 411
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27 AMVnR, PMK, a.e.133, 4-32. Memo of Danov, 29.

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69 The lack of a comprehensive, multi-dimensional study of the Paris Peace Conference of 1946 represents a major lacuna in the historiography. A short outline of the major issues, accompanied with selected sources, is Kertesz, Stephen, The Last European Peace Conference, Paris, 1946: Conflict of Values (Lanham: University Press of America, 1985)Google Scholar. For a good collection of documents related to the talks, see U.S. Department of State, Paris Peace Conference, 1946: Selected Documents (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947).

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71 The Bulgarian–Yugoslav and Bulgarian–Romanian frontiers remained at their 1941 extent, as agreed by the three countries, so they were not discussed in Paris. Other territorial questions debated included Yugoslav demands vis-à-vis Italy in Istria and the confrontation between Romania and Hungary over Transylvania. For the difficult position of Hungary, which failed to preserve its wartime territorial gains in Transylvania, but also had to enact a population exchange with Czechoslovakia, see Kertesz, Between Russia and the West. For the Italian-Yugoslav border, see Sluga, The Problem of Trieste.

72 AMVnR, PMK, a.e. 137. Messages d'Athenes, 19 Mar. 1946.

73 IAYE, 1946, 43, 1. Greek memo draft.

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76 AMVnR, PMK, a.e. 402, 3-4. Bulgarian delegation on the draft treaty, 25 Aug. 1946.

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79 TsPA,1b, 7, a.e. 783, 1. Chervenkov to CPY, 30 Aug. 1946.

80 TsPA,1b, 7, a.e. 738. Kostov to Tito, 19 Aug. 1946.

81 Lalkov, ‘Edin diplomaticheski spor’, 65.

82 Ibid., 63–4.

83 Ibid., 65–6.

84 AMVnR, PMK, a.e. 402, 65. Amendment proposed by Greece, 7 Sept. 1946.

85 AMVnR, PMK, a.e. 74. Declaration of the Yugoslav delegation, 1 Oct. 1946.

86 AMVnR, PMK, a.e. 510, 24-31.

87 AMVnR, PMK, a.e. 351, 88-92.

88 IAYE, 1946, 43, 4. Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the Political and Territorial Commission, 3 Oct. 1946.

89 IAYE, 1946, 43, 6. Speech of Tsaldaris, 11 Oct. 1946.

90 TsPA, 1b, 7, a.e. 778 and 740. Kulishev to Dimitrov, 30 and 31 Aug. 1946.

91 Crampton, Eastern Europe, 227–8 and Boll, Cold War in the Balkans, 177–92.

92 TsPA,1b, 7, a.e. 904. Dimitrov to Kostov, 22 Aug. 1947.

93 Crampton, Eastern Europe, 227–8 and Boll, Cold War in the Balkans, 177–92.

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