We invite you to follow and join the discussion on the book by Dr. Aleksandar V. Miletić "Tito's Emissary Milovan Đilas: Diplomatic-Negotiating and Foreign Policy Activities (1943-1953)" on Tuesday, February 1 at 12 noon. In addition to the author, Natalija Dimić will take part in the conversation , the moderator will be Dr. Božica Slavković Mirić

Zoom link starting at 12h

https://zoom.us/j/97229072888?pwd=TTUwM2JMQmtvdzJ1QnY2eHpBZFJ5dz09

The Institute for Recent History of Serbia invites you to the opening of the exhibition of the Historical Archive of Belgrade entitled Russian Emigration in Belgrade from the 1920s to the 1950s, on Tuesday, February 1, starting at 12 o'clock in the Russian House in Belgrade (Kraljice Natalije 33). The authors of the exhibition are: prof. PhD. Alexei Timofeyev, who is also a scientific advisor at the Institute of Recent History of Serbia, PhD. Milana Zivanović, research associate at the Institute of Recent History of Serbia and Slobodan Mandić, director assistent of the Historical Archive of Belgrade.  

More about the opening of the exhibition as well as about the exhibition itself on:

https://www.facebook.com/events/514511083270178/?ref=newsfeed

https://ruskidom.rs/sr/dogadjaj/izlozhba-istori-skog-arhiva-beograda/

PhD Sanja Petrović Todosijević, research associate at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, was a guest on the morning program of Euronews Serbia television on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

https://www.euronews.rs/.../dan-secanja-na-zrtve.../vest

The third issue of Currents of History for 2021 has been published. It consists of
scientific papers (in English) dealing with Yugoslav legislation between the two world
wars, political relations between FNR Yugoslavia and Italy, Belgium and Israel, as well
as the corruption, gender policy, cultural diplomacy and censorship in socialist
Yugoslavia. Finally, there are two review essays on Serbia, Southeastern Europe and the
First World War in recent western historiography.

The latest issue of the Currents of History is accessible on the Journal’s website:

http://tokovi.istorije.rs/cir/arhiva/13/2021/12/30/32021.html.

Currents of History is an academic journal of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia,
that publishes academic articles, essays, polemics, reviews, information on conferences,
and historical sources related to the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the
Balkans.

On December 29, 2021, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development formed a new National Scientific Committee for History, Archeology and Ethnology. Among the eight members of the board are Dr. Petar Dragisic, scientific advisor from the Institute of Recent History of Serbia, Dr. Bojan Dimitrijevic, scientific advisor from the Institute of Contemporary History and Dr. Petar Krestic, scientific advisor at the Historical Institute. The term of office of MNO members is 5 years.

Congratulations!

You can view the document here.

According to the categorization of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development for 2021, the journal of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia "Currents of History" has been ranked as an international journal in the M23 category. The national list of scientific journals is available at the following link:

https://www.mpn.gov.rs/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/List%D0%B0-naucnih-casopisa-domacih-izdavaca-za-2021.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0vw40iWPXUvx9ETMWf7RIe1SZT8PiPhwIg5Y0KkkDu8oK3UHg04k01wgg

In cooperation with the Čigoja Press, the Institute for European Studies and the Shaper Foundation, the Institute for Recent History of Serbia is one of the co-publishers of the monograph "Greece: War for Independence, State Building and National Revival" by Serbian Ambassador in Athens Dusan Spasojevic. This is the first book in the Serbian language that deals with the topic of contemporary Greek history. Regarding the creation of foundations on which the modern Greek state was established and on which the national identity of modern Greeks was formed. The book was created as a result of many years of dedicated work, which included research of extensive archival material and literature, many of them of Greek provenance, whose language the author speaks.

The author of the book, Dušan Spasojević, graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, and has a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as Chief of Staff to the Federal Minister of the Interior, Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Republic, Assistant Minister and Secretary of Defense, and Ambassador of Serbia inTurkey. Since 2016, he has been the Serbian ambassador in Greece.

The book has 416 pages, it is equipped with a rich scientific apparatus, the selected illustrations are extremely useful, specially designed geographical maps, which faithfully reflect historical processes.The book will be available in all larger bookstores in Serbia, Montenegro and Republika Srpska.

You can read more about the book presentation here.

Institute for Recent History of Serbia in cooperation with several scientific institutions from abroad (Center for Governance and Culture in Europe - University of St. Gallen, Berliner Zentrum für transnationale Grenzforschung, Center for Advanced Studies - Sofia, New Europe College Bucharest, Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin ) organizes 10-11. April 2022, a scientific workshop dedicated to "informal practices" in Southeast Europe.

The workshop will be held in the premises of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia.

The working language of the workshop is English.

We invite colleagues, especially younger associates, to send the application to the email address informality2022@gmail.com by January 12th.

You can see a detailed description of the workshop in the attachment..

https://www.facebook.com/events/577413773560358/

The Institute for Recent History of Serbia invites you to attend a seminar

on Thursday, November 18, 2021, starting at 11 am, which will be held on the occasion of the publication of the book by diplomat Dušan Spasojević,  "Greece: The War for Independence, the Creation of the State and the Revival of the Nation" in the premises of the Institute for European Studies (Ceremonial hall of the building on Trg Nikola Pašića 11 on the fourth floor). Spasojević's book  was published by: Čigoja štampa, the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, the Institute for European Studies and the Srdjan Shaper Foundation. One of the participants in the seminar will be Dr. Slobodan Selinić, scientific advisor of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia.  

More about the seminar and participants 

http://www.ies.rs/.../18-novembar-seminar-povodom-knjige.../

the photo of the author of the book is taken from:
http://www.athens.mfa.gov.rs/lat/ambassadortext.php?subaction=showfull&id=1348055387&ucat=116&template=DefaultLat&

INIS got another PhD in its ranks!

On November 9, Aleksandar Rakonjac defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Industrialization of Yugoslavia (1947−1952). Plans and Practice" in the ceremonial hall of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

The dissertation was defended in front of the commission:

Prof. PhD Ljubodrag Dimić, Full Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, regular member of SANU. Mentor and writer of the report.

Prof. PhD Mira Radojevic, Full Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, corresponding member of SANU

Prof. PhD Aleksandar Životić, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrad. Chairman of the commission for the defense of the doctoral dissertation.

PhD Vladimir Cvetković, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Recent History of Serbia

PhD Jovan Čavoški, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Recent History of Serbia

The paper is predominantly based on the primary spurces that the candidate researched in the Archives of Yugoslavia, the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, the State Archives of Serbia, the Archives of the National Bank of Serbia, the Historical Archives of Belgrade, the Archives of Vojvodina and the Archives of Slovenia.

CONGRATULATIONS!

"The results of the research presented in the text reveal new insights into a society led by a strong desire to consolidate quickly and efficiently after great human and material losses in the just ended war, how it dealt with the remnants of defeated enemies and how it was striving to pursues an independent policy, gaining new allies, but also enemies. "

Excerpt from the review of Colonel Dr. Slobodan Đukić  

You can buy Dr. Dmitar Tasić's new monograph in the premises of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia.
More on this news you can click on FB page of the Institute.

Mile Bjelajac, Bojan Dimitrijevic and Blaz Torkar, among others, will appear in a new documentary series of conversations dedicated to the military organization in Slovenia and in its past. The first episode of the series will start on Monday, October 25. The next episodes will be released on Monday.

On October 22, 2021, a scientific conference called "Danube - a Bridge that Connects Cultures" was held at the Regional Center for Professional Development of Education Employees in Smederevo, organized by the Historical Archive in Smederevo and the Center for Historical Research of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. Our colleague PhD Bojan Simić, a senior research associate at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, also participated in the gathering. Simić presented the results of his research on the topic of Josip Broz Tito in Smederevska Palanka in December 1952. International and local aspects of the visit.

The first annual issue of the Currents of History (1/2021) has been published. The latest issue of the Journal features articles on the revolutionary nature of the Sarajevo assassination and its later socio-political (mis)uses, on the controversies surrounding Serbia’s World War I losses, the woman question in the interwar Yugoslavia, Greater Albania’s educational policy in Kosovo and Metohija, purges of “Titoists” in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany, Yugoslav-Romanian economic relations, and the Pioneer Town in Zagreb, as well as theoretical articles about the principles of the Left’s counter-memory and counterfactual history, and published sources from the Russian archives on the Coup d’Etat of May 1903, among others.

The latest issue of the Currents of History is accessible on the Journal’s website.

Currents of History is an academic journal of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, that publishes academic articles, essays, polemics, reviews, information on conferences, and historical sources related to the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans.

Diplomatic, consular and economic relations between Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY) and Republic of Argentina were established on 16 th September 1946. In the first decade after the Second World War, the two states had some open problems and unresolved issues such as question of commercial agreements, Yugoslav political émigrés in Argentina, especially the Ustasha, Argentinean nationalized property in Yugoslavia, visas for Yugoslav citizens traveling to Argentina etc. The relations between Socialist Yugoslavia and Peron’s Argentina had its ups and downs. Paradoxically, the signs of improvement were seen in 1955, the year when Peron was overthrown and forced to leave the country (agreement to promote legations into embassies, medals for the two chiefs of diplomacy, less tolerance towards Ustasha in Argentina etc). The relations between the two countries in the first decade after the Second World War were not of principal importance to both states, but they were nevertheless complex and challenging.

Content

Paramilitarism in the Balkans: the Cases of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania, 1917–1924

Paramilitarism in the Balkans analyses the origins and manifestations of paramilitary violence in three neighbouring Balkan countries – Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania – after the First World War. It shows the role of paramilitarism in internal and external policies in all three states, focusing on the main actors and perpetrators of paramilitary violence, their social backgrounds, motivations, and future career trajectories. Dmitar Tasic places the region into the broader European context of booming paramilitarism that came as the result of the first global conflict, dissolution of old empires, the creation of nation-states, and simultaneous revolutions. While paramilitarism in most post-Great War European states was the product of violence of the First World War and brutalization which societies of both victorious and defeated countries went through, paramilitarism in the Balkans was closely connected with the already existing traditions originating from the period of armed struggle against Ottoman rule, and state and nation building projects of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Paramilitary traditions were so strong that in all subsequent crises and military conflicts in the Balkans the legacy of paramilitarism remained alive and present.

(taken from Robert Gerwarth, General Editor of the The Great War series)

You can see the content of the book by clicking here.

edited by Srđan Mićić and Nataša Milićević
Belgrade: Istorijski arhiv Beograda; Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2020

Aleksandar Lukić
Beograd: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2020.

Može se zaključiti da je kolega Aleksandar Lukić, obavivši iscrpno istraživanje, detaljno proučio istoriju Jugoslovenske republikanske stranke, tragajući za prvim pojavama republikanskih ideja u srpskoj državi i utvrđujući veoma širok društveni i politički kontekst u kome su ispoljavane. Pokazao je pritom da je republikanizam u Srbiji daleko starijeg datuma od osnivanja stranke koja ga je kao ključno programsko načelo istakla već u svom imenu. Proučavajući rad republikanske partije, pak, otvorio je važno pitanje postojanja srpske građanske levice, koja se tokom nekoliko decenija uporno i principijelno zalagala za parlamentarnu demokratiju i socijalno pravedno društvo. Analizirajući ove i druge probleme, kolega Lukić napisao je prvu celovitu studiju o Jugoslovenskoj republikanskoj stranci u periodu između dva svetska rata, tumačeći njenu delatnost u okviru složenih političkih problema i nacionalnih odnosa.

(iz recenzije prof. dr Mire Radojević)

The new Editorial Board of the journal Currents of History has been selected.

Following the decision made by the Research Council of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia on 12 November 2020, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief during the next four years will be Dr. Vladan Jovanović, senior research associate at the Institute for Recent History of
Serbia.

Dr. Aleksandar Raković and Dr. Vesna Đikanović will remain members of the journal’s editorial team, whereas the new Editorial Secretary will be Natalija Dimić.

Members of the Editorial Board from other institutions and from abroad include

Dr. Ivana Dobrivojević Tomić (Serbia),
Dr. Dragan Bakić (Serbia),
Prof. Dr. Catherine Horel (France),
Prof. Dr. Bojan Balkovec (Slovenia),
Dr. Sabine Rutar (Germany),
Prof. Dr. Yaroslav V. Vishnyakov (Russia),
Prof. Dr. Arpad Hornjak (Hungary), and
Prof. Dr. Ondřej Vojtěchovský (Czech Republic).