Уобличавање рационалног погледа на историју српско-руских односа у научном делу Мирослава Јовановића
Shaping of the rational view of the history of Serbian-Russian relations in the scientific work of Miroslav Jovanović

About two books: “Serbs on Russia and Russians” and “Serbs and Russians 12th-21st century (history of relations)”

Summary/Abstract: The article is about two books of Professor Miroslav Jovanović, in which he sets light to the Serbian-Russian relations and mutual perceptions of Serbs and Russians. Special attention is paid to Miroslav Jovanović’s effort to establish a rational and critical approach to Serbian-Russian relations, especially the Serbian perceptions of Russians and Russia, often lacking in the Serbian intellectual circles. The special quality of these two books is that they encompass a long interval of relations between the two nations: the first refers to nine centuries of common history, and the second to last 260 years. M. Jovanović aimed at presenting and explaining the entirety of relations between Serbs and Russians, but also to point out to misunderstandings, ignorance, misconceptions and stereotypes in mutual perceptions between the two nations. The article is concluded by M. Jovanović’s statement that Serbian ideas about Russians and Russia rarely correspond to the real situation and that the Serbian society and the Serbian intellectual elite not only does not know the real situation in Russia, but it also shows a substantial lack of interest for it. And since they do not represent a real image of Russia, the examples Miroslav Jovanović brought up in his books, could only be illustrations of Serbian self-image.

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