Balkan Federation and Communes

How much does an unrealized past that was once a possible future agitate us? Today the Balkans seem to be dominated by nationalism, violence, and xenophobia—ills that were cultivated after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the intervention of the Great Powers in the region. The peoples of the Balkans have since been squeezed into numerous small state entities, each promoting its own national idea. But this was not the only possible development. There were dynamic revolutionary movements