Yugoslavia: Forms of Elites

Pre-requisites: Completed undergraduate studies in history; regular class attendance and fulfillment of academic obligations.

Course objectives: Deepening and expanding knowledge from undergraduate studies in history and cultivating student's ability to critically evaluate sources and texts.

Course description: Theoretical component: Through lectures, this course addresses various types of elites that were present in Yugoslavia - political, intellectual, economic, military and religious, along with their relationship to Yugoslavia as a country, understanding it's multilateral problems, structuring ideas, contributing to creating a local political climate, influence, issues of responsibility, participation during crises. Practical component: enabling students to independently locate historical sources, analyze and evaluate, develop critical thinking and be ready to present their knowledge and findings in written and oral form.

Learning Outcomes: Adopting a critical stance to previous knowledge and identifying unresearched problems, as well as theoretically-methodologically envisioning new ways or research, writing papers.

Literature/Reading:

• B. Petranović, Istorija Jugoslavije 1918–1988, I-III, Beograd 1988.
• Đ. Stanković, Nikola Pašić i jugoslovensko pitanje, 1-2, Beograd 1985.
• Lj. Dimić, Kulturna politika u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji 1918–1941, Beograd 1996–1997.
• M. Radojević, Naučnik i politika. Politička biografija Božidara V. Markovića (1874–1946), Beograd 2008.
• D. Gajević, Jugoslovenstvo između stvarnosti i iluzija, Beograd 1985.
• M. Janićijević, Stvaralačka inteligencija međuratne Jugoslavije, Beograd 1984.
• R. Radić, Život u vremenima: Gavrilo Dožić 1881–1950, Beograd 2006.
• S. Đurović, Državna intervencija u industriji Jugoslavije 1918–1941, Beograd 1986.
• M. Bjelajac, P. Trifunović, Između vojske i politike. Biografija generala Dušana Trifunovića 1880–1942, Beograd – Kruševac 1997.