Publisher: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije

1968 - четрдесет година после

Author(s): / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2008

1968 – Forty Years Later represents a collection of historiographical works of 26 authors from different countries (Serbia, Russia, Czech, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Germany) about the international relations and the foreign-relation temptations of Yugoslavia and also about the domestic circumstances in Yugoslavia during the years 1967-1969. The first part of the book is dealing with topics like: 1968 as the turning-point for Eastern Europe, „Prague Spring“ after the increase of Soviet pressure on Czechoslovakia (July 1968), „Prague Spring“ and the attitudes of the Hungarian leadership, its influence in Bulgaria, the phenomenon of the Czechoslovak opposition after the defeat of the „Prague Spring“ in 1969-1972, the year 1968 as a point of departure of the new Yugoslav foreign policy orientation, Yugoslav reactions to the crisis in the Middle East and dictatorship in Greece, Yugoslav-Soviet, Yugoslav-Romanian and Yugoslav-Italian relations in the days of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1960s, Yugoslav economic emigration in West Germany and the visit of the crew of Apollo 11 to Yugoslavia in 1969. The second part of the book is consisted from the works about Yugoslavia's activities in domestic and foreign policy after the intervention of the Warsaw Pact in Czecholsovakia in 1968, Yugoslav People’s Army’s ordeals in 1960s, the echo of the global student revolt of 1968 in Yugoslav youth and student press, student demonstrations in Belgrade and Yugoslavia in 1968, the case of Krunoslav Draganovic as one aspect of Yugoslav − Vatican relations, liberalization of Yugoslav theatre, and „rebellious“1968 in Istria. Most works are based on the new historical researches and they, after forty years, try to give a new answer and point of view on the issues connected with the happenings in 1968. The book contains also Chronology of the important events in 1968 and Bibliography of the selected Works on 1968.

Spoljna politika Jugoslavije 1950-1961.

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Russian,Serbian / Publication Year: 2008

The collection of paper consists of 34 articles written by Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian, Israeli, Greek, Finish, Czech, Montenegrin, Croatian and Slovenian historians about different aspects of the foreign policy of the socialist Yugoslavia in the period between 1950 and 1961. In the focus of the researchers’ interests were the issues of the normalization of the relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and its allies after the confrontation which lasted from 1948 to 1953, the opening of Yugoslavia towards Western world, the way of the creation of the new concept of Yugoslav foreign policy based on the bloc non-alignment concept and the participation of Yugoslavia in the creation of the Balkan Pact with Greece and Turkey (1953-1954).

Tokovi istorije

Frequency: 4 issues / Country: Serbia

The Institute for Recent History of Serbia came into being through a permanent transformation of institutions which evolved from one to another. It was founded in 1949 as the Great Historical Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Serbia (CC of the CPS), as a kind of archival-documentary institution. Already the next year it broadened the scope of its activity to dealing with the history of the Communist Party during the 1929-1941 periods. In April 1952 the Historical Department of the CC of the CPS evolved into the Commission for the History of the CC of the CPS. The boundaries of research of the history of labor movement were broadened to 19th century, and then to the history of the Serbia Social-Democrat movement up to the WWI, and the history of labor movement 1919-1941. Topics from WWII were also included into the working scope. Since July 1954 the Commission for History was transformed into the Historical Archives of the CC of the CPS. In January 1959 the Historical Archives was separated from the CC of the CPS, becoming the Institute for Collecting and Processing of the Documents on the Development of the Labor Movement in Serbia, which became an independent institution with predominantly archival tasks. However, it also took up some scientific work, such as the writing of the history of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in several volumes. In 1965 the Institute was registered as the Institute for History of the Labor Movement, and in 1979 its status as a research institution was recognized. Since 1970 it has been participating at the general project of the History of the Serbian People. In early 1980s a quiet and discrete, but resolute sequel of changes started at the Institute which gradually led to a completely new content and image of the Institute. Over ten young researchers were taken on, who, in cooperation with the History Department of the Faculty of Arts, broached a number of new topics which called for a new sub-project about Serbia between the two world wars, i.e. in 20th century, its social, economic and political history that would methodologically and theoretically be in tune with the trends in European and world historiography. Thus the Institute took part in the general project The History of Serbia and the Serbian People, which was subdivided into three sub-projects: Serbian Society between the two World wars, Serbia in WWII and The Development of Serbia after WWII. In early 1990s, one of the great consequences of this turn was the complete change in the make-up of the Institute’s journal and its rise to the position of one of the leading journals on contemporary history in Serbia, under the title „Tokovi istorije” (Currents of History). In 1992 the Institute was renamed the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. Throughout its history, this scholarly institution had a rich scientific output of 37 volumes of its journal, 52 monographs, 12 collections of documents and 14 topical collections of papers.

Za bezimene

Delatnost UNICEF-a u Federativnoj Narodnoj Republici Jugoslaviji 1947–1954.

Author(s): Sanja Petrovic-Teodosijevic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2008

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was founded on 11 December 1946 in New York City by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 57 as a temporary institution and an integral part of the UN system with the aim of providing relief to children of European countries devastated in the Second World War. The Agreement between the International Children’s Fund and the Government of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was signed on 20 November 1947. The policy of the state toward the Fund in the period following the end of World War II reflects the international position of the socialist Yugoslavia, which was considered, until the summer of 1948, a territory under pronounced Soviet sphere of influence. In keeping with the policy of Western powers and the United States, after the conflict with the “big” Soviet leader it acquired a status of a country which should at least be “kept afloat”. Fencing itself first from the West and then from the East, Yugoslavia found itself in disadvantaged position of a country with insufficiently defined position in the world divided by Cold War. Change of attitude toward the USSR and other Soviet bloc countries has only temporarily immobilized Yugoslav officials. Economic blockade from the East has undoubtedly made Yugoslav leadership seek partners on the other side. In the light of new developments, any kind of aid, like the one distributed through UNICEF, coming in one way or another from the West and from Americans, was regarded with greater approval. Redefinition of Yugoslav relations toward UNICEF was finally completed in January 1949. Since the beginning of 1949 the International Children’s Fund became an unquestionable partner of the new Yugoslav authorities in dealing with sanitary and hygienic backwardness, more precisely in their effort to solve some of the major social problems. By the summer of 1950 Yugoslavia became a privileged beneficiary of UNICEF programs. As the only Eastern bloc country which managed to oppose Soviet influence and tried to build what was often referred to as its own road to socialism, Yugoslavia became strategically an extremely important partner to Western democracies. Any form of assistance was a proof of affinity and confirmation of the right choice in the years when the mankind had to deal with numerous crises as the consequence of Cold-War divisions in the world. The analysis of the implementation of UNICEF programs through presentation of the relationship between the Fund and the new, communist authorities in the years when Yugoslavia was seeking “its own road to socialism”, social and political environment in which foreign officials of UNICEF mission on temporary assignment in Yugoslavia had to work, short-term programs intended to contribute to the satisfaction of elementary needs in food, footwear and clothing, long-term campaigns aiming to encourage different insufficiently developed spheres of social environment, massive medical campaigns implemented to eradicate dangerous infections should have pointed to major social problems that represented a framework in which Yugoslav boys and girls grew up in the first ten years following the end of the Second World War. Implementation of mass-scale UNICEF campaigns has helped in identifying hundreds of thousands of anonymous youngsters, marginalized human lives whose discovery represented an extraordinary challenge for the state in which real needs exceeded available capacities.

Југославија и Суецка криза 1956–1957.

Author(s): Aleksandar Životic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2008

During the Suez Crisis Yugoslav Government has demonstrated its new political doctrine based on principles of political distancing from two blocks and creation of wide movement of unaligned and unengaged countries in concrete situation for the first time. Through actions toward solving big international conflict, what the Suez Crisis definitely was, Yugoslavia preventively acted towards protecting its own national security. In the same time, by sending one contingent as part of the UN peace forces, Yugoslavia provided a way to be present in the region. During the Suez Crisis Yugoslavia has also shown outlines of its Middle East policy which fully proved themselves during following decades and which were the cornerstones of Yugoslav foreign policy till the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.