Kako se pisalo i kako se danas treba pisati o historiji Drugog svjetskog rata u Bosni i Hercegovini?
How was it written and how one should write today about the History of the Second World War in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Author(s): Ivo Goldstein
Subject(s): Military history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Source Material, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Second World War; historiography;
Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the methodological concepts that have been used over the decade in the writing of the history of the Second World War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in the other republics of the socialist Yugoslavia. He also writes about how this history was written in the last 30 years. Finally, he proposes how this topics should be approached and written today. In the era of socialist Yugoslavia, so-called “partisanship” was at applied, in other words, a way of thinking and ultimately a text that was “permeated” or to which the “communist Party” way of thinking was imposed. Since 1990, after the democratization and independence of BiH, the space of freedom has opened up. However, some historians began to produce “our history” in ethnic sense. Historians elsewhere evaluate this idea as provincial and politically driven propaganda. Fortunately, a number of papers have been published in recent years that have taken strong steps in the right direction-ideologies are analyzed, the history of violence is analyzed, attempts are made to fathom into its deeper sociological causes, into the psychological motives of the individuals.

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