Yugoslavia during the Cold War

Pre-requisites: Students are required to regularly attend class and fulfill their academic obligations, as well as be capable of independent professional scientific work/research.

Course objectives: Building on student's previous studies from undergraduate courses by addressing key issues of local and international politics in Yugoslavia; sources and scientific literature; understanding and mastering relevant texts in the field and critically assessing them, independent work.

Course description: The theoretical component of this course is comprised of lectures which address the international position of Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War, Yugoslavia's relationship with countries to the East and West, its neighbours and third world countires. We will examine the essence of the pacifist politics of actively coexisting lead by Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia's opposition to arms raising, political interests, colonialism and a block division of the world, as well as Yugoslavia's concrete actions and role in the major crises of the Cold War. Practical component: mastering the scientific method; mobilizing students to independently analyze and research historical sources and literature and be able to critique various historical sources according to typography, content and origin of the source or historiographic literature; nurturing critical thought, the culture of professional dialogue and precision in delivering ones opinion and knowledge both orally and in written form.

Learning Outcomes: Mastering the basic course materials on the history of the Cold War with a specific focus on the place and role of Yugoslavia in european and world politics; fundamental knowledge of world historical processes 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. Bogetić, Jugoslavija i Zapad 1952-1955, Beograd 2001.
• D. Bekić, Jugoslavija u Hladnom ratu, Zagreb 1988.
• 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.