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The Death of Yugoslavia (broadcast as Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation in the US) [2] is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in September and October 1995, and returning in June 1996. It is also the title of a BBC book by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series.
The Book of Blam (Serbian Cyrillic: Књига о Бламу, Knija o Blamu) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Aleksandar Tišma, first published in Serbo-Croatian in 1972. It was republished by New York Review Books in 2016 in its classics series, with an introduction by Charles Simic .
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
Ex-Officio Members of the Commission on Statutory Questions of the 9th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Name 8th 10th Birth PM Death Branch Nationality Gender Ref. Antun Biber: New: Not: 1910 1939 1995 Croatia: Croat: Male [14] Salim Ćerić: New: Not: 1918 1941 1987 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Muslim: Male [15] Predrag-Dragan ...
He published a memoir book Od smrti Tita do smrti Jugoslavije ("From the death of Tito to the death of Yugoslavia", ISBN 978-9958-10275-2) and a book of memories on events and personalities Vrijeme koje se pamti' ("Times to be remembered", ISBN 9958-703-81-5).
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
Ustaše death camp reconstruction, museum exhibit in Banja Luka The Poplar of horror. In post-WWII Yugoslavia the emphasis was on memorializing the Partisan resistance, not civilian victims. [234] The authorities sought to present Nazi and fascist occupiers as the main criminals, with domestic quislings being only secondary actors. [235]
Djilas was sent to Moscow to meet Stalin again in 1948 to try and bridge the gap between Moscow and Belgrade. He became one of the leading critics of attempts by Stalin to bring Yugoslavia under greater control by Moscow. Later that year, Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union and left the Cominform, ushering in the Informbiro period. [citation ...