The Yugoslav State Security Service and the Bleiburg Commemorations

This article, based overwhelmingly on primary sources produced by the Yugoslav State Security Service, provides a historical overview of their work with respect to the commemorations at Bleiburg. It summarizes the stance of the Yugoslav State Security Service towards Croat émigrés by focusing on the concrete measures and the e ntire spectrum of available methods undertaken by the Service in conjunction with the commemorations. After a general summary of the work of the Yugoslav security services with respect to émigrés, the article provides detailed examination of two events separated by two decades (1966 and 1985). The 1966 commemoration was notable not only because it was the year in which the émigrés purchased a plot of land in Bleiburg, but also because the aftermath of that year’s commemoration was marred by a bomb attack. The second case is the fortieth anniversary commemoration in 1985, which was perceived by both the agents of the Yugoslav state and the émigrés themselves as being particularly important. Together the two cases provide insight into the Yugoslav State Security Service’s long-term operation aimed at curtailing and suppressing Croat émigré activity. The article shows that even though the Yugoslav State Security Service was willing to use violent means in this struggle, the preferred means remained infiltration, disinformation, provocation, and constant surveillance

Er Balkan glemt?

Balkan er midt i alle EU’s kriser og sideløbende foregår en proces frem mod at indlemme alle Balkanlande i EU

Decentralization of the Organs of Internal Affairs in the Socialist Republic of Croatia

Kako su se organi unutarnjih poslova u Socijalističkoj Republici Hrvatskoj i u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji razvijali, čime su se bavili, do kakvih je promjena došlo i zbog čega? Tijekom otprilike prva dva desetljeća socijalističke Jugoslavije pitanja koja su se odnosila na policiju i državnu sigurnost – ili službenim nazivom na organe unutarnjih poslova – bila su poput većine ostalih pitanja u zemlji vrlo centralizirana. Međutim, postoje indicije da 1966. možda nije bila toliko značajna prekretnica kako se popularno misli te da su neke važne promjene bile ubrzane, a ne pokrenute nakon smjenjivanja Aleksandra Rankovića. Ovaj članak prvenstveno se temelji na izvorima iz 13. maja, službenog časopisa Saveznog sekretarijata za unutrašnje poslove (SSUP). Pažljivo čitanje tog časopisa otkriva članke koji se bave pravnim, konceptualnim, tehničkim i praktičnim pitanjima policije. Časopis je stoga dobro mjesto za prikupljanje informacija radi boljeg razumijevanja organa unutarnjih poslova u Jugoslaviji. Ovaj članak razmatra i analizira početak decentralizacije organa unutarnjih poslova u Hrvatskoj, prije svega u području organa javne sigurnosti.How did the organs of internal affairs in the Socialist Republic of Croatia and in socialist Yugoslavia develop, what did they actually do, what changes occurred with respect to them, and why? During approximately the first two decades of socialist Yugoslavia, issues related to police and state security – or, as they were officially called, the organs of internal affairs – were, like most other matters in the country, heavily centralized. However, there are indications that 1966 may not have been as significant a watershed moment as is commonly thought, and that some important changes were accelerated rather than triggered after the ouster of Ranković. This article is primarily based on sources from 13. maj, the official journal of the Federal Secretariat for Internal Affairs (SSUP). A careful reading of this journal reveals very detailed articles dealing with legal, conceptual, technical and practical issues affecting policing. The journal is therefore a good place to gather information for a better understanding of policing and internal affairs in Yugoslavia. This article examines and analyses the beginning of decentralization of internal affairs in Croatia, above all with regard to public security bodies

The Tito-Stalin Split 70 Years After

The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series. The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series.&nbsp

Anmeldelse: Faren for stabilitokratier på Balkan

Anmeldelse af 'The Rise of Authoritarianism in the Western Balkans

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND HISTORY – INTRODUCTION TO A RESEARCH PROJECT

Kakvu povijest ispisuje Međunarodni kazneni sud za bivšu Jugoslaviju (MKSJ), predmet je obimnoga istraživačkog projekta autora, koji u ovom članku izlaže tek uvodnu skicu o tome. Kako bi istražio spregu međunarodnog krivičnog prava i povijesti, autor se suočio s pitanjem: kako bi povijest raspada Jugoslavije i sukoba na području bivše Jugoslavije izgledala ako bismo raspolagali samo presudama Haškog tribunala? U odgovoru na to pitanje autor analizira prvostupanjske presude Pretresnog vijeća, izdvajajući iz njih “povijesne činjenice”, a odbacujući razmišljanja Vijeća o pravnim i postupovnim pitanjima. Kao probni slučaj koristi prvu presudu MKSJ-a, presudu Dušku Tadiću (suđenje Tadiću počelo je 7. svibnja 1996. godine, a presuda je donesena točno godinu dana kasnije). Premda ocjenjuje da je ta prva presuda napisana na neoptimalan način, autor smatra da je većina preliminarno utvrđenih povijesnih činjenica historiografski relevantna, da presuda napose pruža općeprihvatljivu sliku povijesti Kraljevine Jugoslavije i socijalističke Jugoslavije. Autor utvrđuje da će obimna dokumentacija MKSJ-a (Haškog tribunala) imati ogroman utjecaj na rad budućih generacija povjesničara. Taj jedinstveni, bogati arhiv povijesne građe javnosti i znanstvenicima sve je dostupniji preko online-baze podataka MKSJ-a. Najnoviji znanstveni radovi koji se bave bivšom Jugoslavijom koriste i presude i dokumentaciju Suda. Znanstvenici će se morati pozabaviti narativima koji se nalaze u presudama.The author’s comprehensive research project, of which this article is but an introductory outline, inquires into the kind of history written out by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In order to investigate the interrelation between criminal law and history, the author faced the following question: what would the history of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and of conflicts in its territory look like if all we had were the judgements of the Hague Tribunal? The author bases his reply on an analysis of first-instance judgements of the Trial Chamber, from which he singles out “historical facts”, and rejects the reflections of the Chamber on legal and procedural issues. As a model case he uses the first ICTY judgement pronounced against Duško Tadić (the trial started on May 7, 1996, and the judgement was pronounced a year later). Although he estimates that the first judgement was not written in an optimal way, the author deems that most preliminarily established historical facts were relevant to historiography, and that, in particular, the judgement offers a universally acceptable notion of the history of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and of socialist Yugoslavia. He is of the opinion that the extensive documentation of ICTY (the “Hague Tribunal”) will have a major influence on the work of future generations of historians. Such a unique and replete archive of historical material is increasingly available to the public and to scientists through ICTY’s online database. The most recent scientific works dealing with the former Yugoslavia also make use of the Tribunal’s judgements and documentation. Scientists will have to pay due attention to the narratives included therein

The Tito-Stalin Split 70 Years After

The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series. The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series.&nbsp