Author(s): Čedomir Antić / Language(s): Serbian
Issue: 2/2024
The main shortcomings of Đokićʼs synthesis are methodological - lack of context, lack of comparison with other countries and nations, lack of examination of stereotypes. It also leaves out important topics of Serbian history. It deals with important topics such as: the expansion of territory, ethnic identity, the development of the name of the state and the people, continuities and discontinuities in historical development, relations with other nations, relations with empires, xenophobia among Serbs, but also anti-Serbism, the relationship between empires and Serbia, modernisation and its impact on Serbs, proselytism and conversion to Catholicism, the Vlach origin of Serbs in Croatia, the suffering under the Ottoman conquests and the true relationship between the Ottoman government and the Serbs, the nature of the Serbian revolution, most of the issues related to the Yugoslav movement, the relationship between the Serbs and the minority peoples, the crimes against the Serbs (especially during the Second World War and the civil wars of the 1990s), the relationship between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the state, the crimes of the communist authorities in Serbia, the causes and consequences of the divisions in Serbia in the 1990s and 2000s... A Concise History of Serbia was written regardless of the existing syntheses, with whose conclusions the author does not agree. The author has not presented the history of Montenegro, Republika Srpska, Republika Srpska Krajina, Croatia and Kosovo-UNMIK to the extent necessary for a clear, informed and accurate understanding of the history of Serbia. The author is biassed, but not from the point of view of Serbia or the surrounding nations, but from the position of a Briton. He is burdened with LGBT ideology and views the world through the lens of minority rights. The Serbian minority is not one of those minorities.
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