WARRIOR, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, POLITICIAN: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL TANASIJE DINIĆ UNTIL 1941 Cover Image

Ратник, обавештајац, политичар: прилози за биографију пуковника Танасија Динића до 1941. године
WARRIOR, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, POLITICIAN: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL TANASIJE DINIĆ UNTIL 1941

Author(s): Rade Ristanović, Miloš Žikić
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Diplomatic history, Military history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Tanasije Dinić; Kingdom of Yugoslavia; Bulgaria, Albania; intelligence service; JRZ; King Aleksandar Karađorđević; Milan Stojadinović

Summary/Abstract: Colonel Tanasije Dinić’s personality and contributions are principally associated with the era of the Second World War, during which he held a prominent role as a collaborator and served as one of Milan Nedić’s ministers. Th is article seeks to undertake a historiographical reconstruction of Colonel Dinić’s activities within the borders of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia leading up to the onset of the Second World War. Th e authors underscore three distinctive phases in Colonel Dinić’s life. Th e initial section of the study meticulously examines his wartime experiences, commencing from his enrollment in the Military Academy’s Lower School and extending to the early years subsequent to the establishment of the SHS Kingdom. Th e subsequent section of the article delves into Colonel Dinić’s signifi cant contributions to the establishment, expansion, and management of an intelligence network with a specifi c focus on Albania and Bulgaria. Th e third section of the article extensively addresses Colonel Tanasije Dinić’s tenure as a member of the Yugoslav Radical Community (JRZ) and the National Assembly. Th e scholarly foundation of this section rests upon pertinent literature and archival sources, which have been systematically employed to craft the narrative presented in the paper

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-89
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Serbian
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