Serbia and Albania (book)
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Serbia and Albania: A Contribution to the Critique of the Conqueror Policy of the Serbian Bourgeoisie is influential book of Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n socialist Dimitrije Tucović
Dimitrije Tucovic
Dimitrije Tucović was a prominent leader and theorist of the socialist movement in the Kingdom of Serbia...

, which analyzes the roots of Serbian-Albanian conflict and consider "among the most important Marxist contributions on the national question in the Balkans".

After the outbreak of the Balkan wars
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

 1912, Tucović was mobilized in the Serbian army
Serbian Army
-Objectives:The Serbian Army is responsible for:* deterring armed threats* defending Serbia's territory* participation in peacekeeping operations* providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief-Personnel:...

 and participated in the Serbian military campaign in Albania
Serbian occupation of Albania
Albania declared independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 and achieved full recognition the following year. This chapter of Albanian history was shrouded in controversy and conflict as the larger part of the self-proclaimed region had found itself controlled by the Balkan League states: Serbia,...

. He sent letters from the front
Front (military)
A military front or battlefront is a contested armed frontier between opposing forces. This can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater...

 about war crimes against Albanian population
Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars
A series of massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars were committed by the Serbian and Montenegrin Army and paramilitaries, according to international reports....

 which were regularly published in the Worker's Newspaper (Radničke novine). After returning from the Balkan war, he published Serbia and Albania in which he criticize the militaristic policy of the Serbian bourgeoisie
Bourgeoisie
In sociology and political science, bourgeoisie describes a range of groups across history. In the Western world, between the late 18th century and the present day, the bourgeoisie is a social class "characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture." A member of the...

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