Once a symbol of unity in the Balkans, Yugoslavia was built on deep divisions that never truly disappeared. When nationalism, ...

In 2017, I visited the House of Flowers in Belgrade, Serbia, the mausoleum that holds the remains of Yugoslavia’s once-indomitable leader, Josip Broz Tito, and his wife, Jovanka. The site feels less ...

A brief history. The roots of the Balkan crisis of the 1990s, particularly those in the area identified as Bosnia-Hercegovina, are found in the history of what ...

In the aftermath of World War II and the creation of socialist Yugoslavia, Brijuni became a kind of second Yugoslav capital.

State authorities in Croatia and Slovenia have recently indiscriminately designated Tito’s Yugoslavia as totalitarian without reservations. Neither of these authorities referred to any systematic ...

Stepping out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to review Gaj Trifkovic’s military study of the course of World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps I should not have been surprised to encounter a ...

Deputies of the Opposition cried “Butcher! Torturer! Nero! Judas! Hypocrite!” and many another heated epithet at Minister of Interior Boza Maximovitch, last week, at Belgrade. They shouted that M.

Disappointed by Croatia’s lack of interest in the history of Yugoslavia and its leader Josip Broz Tito, an ex-journalist launched a walking tour in Zagreb that explores his political career, the WWII ...

When Rebecca West died in 1983, the New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn paid tribute to her talents. Despite having worked with J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote and James Baldwin, among countless ...

KEARNEY — The Kearney Public Library and University of Nebraska at Kearney History Department are planning the next history brown bag lunch series noon-1 p.m. Wednesday when Carol Lilly will present ...

The Union of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia is making preparations to publish, in the Servo-Croatian language, Simon Dubnow’s “History of the Jewish People,” it was reported here from Belgrade today ...