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Paving the Way to Denial

By Katarina Damčević

The rise of hate speech against Serbs in Croatia has been partly facilitated by influential political figures, including members of the government. This manifests primarily through attempts to whitewash the legacy of the WWII Ustaša regime and downplay the crimes it committed.

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Can Memory Europeanize Us? The EU Memory Framework and Contested Memories of the Yugoslav Wars in Contemporary Serbia

By Nikola Gajić

The EU memory framework is designed as a tool for integrating new member states. However, the discrepancy between the Serbian official memory politics and the EU commemorative practices regarding the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s– in particular the Srebrenica genocide–remains high. This endangers the regional reconciliation process and the country’s Europeanization process.

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Kommentare und Analysen Krieg gegen die Ukraine

The Usual Suspects: Russia’s Patron Politics in Republika Srpska

by Sophie Gueudet

The full-scale war against Ukraine has also raised fears that Russia could further destabilise the peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina – by using its significant influence in Republika Srpska (RS). How did the interplay between Moscow and the Bosnian-Serb leadership develop since 2022? An analysis through the prism of patron-client relations.

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Compartmentalized Pasts: Workers’ History in Socialist Yugoslavia

Paper presented at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference, Valencia 30 March – 2 April 2016

In December 1960, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia decided about the director of the newly founded “Institute for the History of the Workers’ Movement” in Zagreb. Their pick was a major-general from the Yugoslav People’s Army. He did not have training as a historian but only secondary and vocational school education. However, he possessed other important qualifications: he had been a partisan during World War Two, he was an active member of the Communists Party and of the influential partisan veteran organization, and he was a history enthusiast. He had already published on themes from the military and political history of Yugoslavia, and he was a member of the editorial board of the “Military Encyclopedia” (Vojna Enciklopedija).