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Political Illusion or Historical Reality? Etlevy Smaçi’s Book Shqipëria në Traktatin e Var-shavës: Mite dhe të Vërteta (1955–1968)
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Political Illusion or Historical Reality? Etlevy Smaçi’s Book Shqipëria në Traktatin e Var-shavës: Mite dhe të Vërteta (1955–1968)

Authors

  • Donika Avdulli Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Historii „Ali Hadri” Prisztina https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9400-7191

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/DN.2026.1.07

Keywords

Albania, Warsaw Pact, USSR, Cold War, international relations, military base in Vlora, Eastern Bloc, Enver Hoxha, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Zhukov

Abstract

The article discusses the work Shqipëria në Traktatin e Varshavës: Mite dhe të Vërteta (1955–1968) [Albania in the Warsaw Pact: Myths and Truth (1955–1968)], authored by Etleva Smaçi, which examines Albania’s political and military relations with the Warsaw Pact, particularly focusing on the Soviet naval base in Vlora as a significant element of Albanian-Soviet cooperation and subsequent conflict. The book provides substantial scholarly value through its detailed examination of the Vlora naval base and contributes to an under-explored area of Albanian historiography. Although Smaçi’s research offers valuable ­insights, its reliance primarily on Albanian archival sources and its limited broader contextualisation somewhat restricts its scope. Overall, the work achieves a noteworthy balance between depth of research and identification of areas for further study.

Author Biography

Donika Avdulli, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Historii „Ali Hadri” Prisztina

Donika Avdulli – a PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of 20th Century History, and an independent researcher at the Ali Hadri Institute of History in Pristina. She is the author of the monograph Shqipëria sipas burimeve polake 1918–1944 [Albania in the Light of Polish Sources 1918–1944) (Pristina: Ali Hadri Institute of History, 2024). Her research focuses on Polish-Albanian relations in the interwar and Cold War periods (the latter being the subject of her doctoral dissertation), the history of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, and both World Wars. E-mail: d.avdulli@uw.edu.pl

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AVDULLI, Donika. Political Illusion or Historical Reality? Etlevy Smaçi’s Book Shqipëria në Traktatin e Var-shavës: Mite dhe të Vërteta (1955–1968). Dzieje Najnowsze. Online. 21 June 2026. Vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 163-181. [Accessed 23 June 2026]. DOI 10.12775/DN.2026.1.07.
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