Yugoslavia and the World in the period between wars

Pre-requisites: Regular class attendance and meeting all school requirements and responsibilities.

Course objectives: Furthering knowledge gained during undergraduate studies in history and moving towards critically assessing sources and literature.

Course description:  Theoretical component encompasses lectures on international conditions during the creation of Yugoslavia as a country, important opponents to its existence, relations with balkan neighbouring countries and forces, maintaining traditional alliances, seeking new political directions, influences of international factors on inner political happenings. Practical component: enabling students to develop a culture of professional dialogue, analyze sources, evaluate existing literature, critically investigate current problems and address new, unasked ones, present findings in historical articles, using contemporary methods.

Learning Outcomes: Critically approaching previous and newly gained knowledge, identifying unexplored questions and issues about Yugoslavia's international position, conducting independent work and study in the form of a scientific article that will be produced.

Literature/Reading:

• B. Petranović, Istorija Jugoslavije 1918–1988, I, Beograd 1988.
• Đ. Stanković, Nikola Pašić, saveznici i stvaranje Jugoslavije, Zaječar 1985.
• Ž. Avramovski, Balkanska antanta (1934–1940), Beograd 1986.
• Ž. Avramovski, Britanci o Kraljevini Jugoslaviji. Godišnji izveštaji britanskog poslanstva u Beogradu 1921–1938, I-II, Beograd 1986.
• V. Vinaver, Jugoslavija i Mađarska 1918–1933, Beograd 1971.
• V. Vinaver, Jugoslavija i Francuska između dva rata, Beograd 1985.
• B. Gligorijević, Kominterna, jugoslovensko i srpsko pitanje, Beograd 1992.
• J. M. Jovanović, Diplomatska istorija Nove Evrope, I-II, Beograd 1938–1939.
• M. Mitić, Poete u fraku, Beograd 2002.