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The resurfacing of Islam in Albania
The resurfacing of Islam in Albania in 1991 is examined. This was the first year for public worship since Albania became an atheist state in 1967. The future of Islam in Albania depends upon the training of new Muslim leaders.
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Greater Albania: The Albanian State and the Question of Kosovo, 1912-2001
The goal of this chapter is to examine Albania's official relationship with Kosovo in the twentieth century. Its intention is not to address \"grass roots\" attitudes towards Kosovo before the 1990s but simply state policy. We should remember that for the overwhelming majority of the period in question, Albania's population had virtually no stake in the political process. In the interwar period an illiterate and impoverished peasantry were subject to the authoritarian regime of King Zog. In the Communist period Albanians confronted the most oppressive form of Stalinism. Nevertheless, despite the earlier inability to affect official policy, popular attitudes may now reflect Tirana's policy. Even with the end of one-party rule in 1991, there was no noticeable clamor to re-evaluate long-established policy towards Kosovo. Why has official Albanian policy been based on Realpolitik vis-à-vis Kosovo rather than openly pursuing a policy of Greater or Ethnic Albania?
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This question is interesting for several reasons. Albanians, unlike some of their neighbors in the region, have not been tempted by claims based on medieval statehood. This is an anomaly especially when one considers that Albanian borders, agreed upon in 1913 and reconfirmed after the First World War, left just as many Albanians outside the state as inside it.
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