Yugoslavia during the Cold War

Pre-requisites: Students are required to regularly attend class and fulfill all academic obligations.

Course objectives: To introduce students to the basic characteristics of local and international politics in Yugoslavia at the time; an in depth examination of essential historical texts and relevant scientific literature, contemporary directions and contemporary issues.

Course description: The theoretical component of this course is comprised of lectures on the international position of Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War; Yugoslavia's relationship with countries to the East and West, cooperation and conflict with Balkan neighbors; position as a leader in the movement of recruiting third-world countries. We will examine the essence of the pacifist politics waged by Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia's opposition to raising arms, political interests, colonialism and block division of the world, as well as Yugoslavia's concrete actions and role in major crises of the Cold War. Practical component: mobilizing students to independently analyze historical sources and literature, critically think and present their findings in written and oral form.

Learning Outcomes: Mastering basic course materials on history of the Cold War, specifically focusing on Yugoslavia's role and place in European and world politics; and fundamental knowledge of historical international events that played out in a local framework (in Yugoslavia).

Literature/Reading:

• B. Petranović, Istorija Jugoslavije 1918-1988, III, Beograd 1988.
• Lj. Dimić, Josip Broz, Nikita Sergejevič Hruščov i mađarsko pitanje, Tokovi istorije, 1-4, 1998, 23-60
• D. Bekić, Jugoslavija u Hladnom ratu, Zagreb 1988.
• D. Bogetić, Jugoslavija i Zapad 1952-1955, Beograd 2001.
• B. Petranović, Jugoslavija, velike sile i balkanske zemlje 1945-1948, Iskustvo narodne demokratije kao partijske države, Beograd 1994.
• O. A. Vestad, Globalni hladni rat, Beograd 2008.
• Dž.L. Gedis, Hladni rat, Beograd 2003.
• L. Lis, Održavanje Tita. Amerika, Jugoslavija i hladni rat, Beograd 2003.
• A.B. Edemskij, Ot konflikta k normalizaciji. Sovetsko-jugoslavskie otnošenija v 1953-1956. godah, Moskva 2008.