As Europe established regional organizations to enforce standards of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, the expectations were that mass atrocities akin to those that happened in WWII would not be repeated on the European continent. Yet, 40 years after WWII, Europe was again struck by the mass violence, this time in the former Yugoslavia. Europe was unprepared […]

The end of World War II led to the fulfilment of the long-standing dream of the Macedonian people to establish their own state. The first Macedonian state was proclaimed at the First Session of ASNOM – the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia. The Presidium (Presidency) of ASNOM was also elected at that session, with Metodija Andonov-Chento as […]

This article aims to bring to the spotlight the approach of textbooks for elementary and secondary schools in both Kosovo and Serbia, as approved by the respective ministries of education, on the developments in Kosovo along the timeframe of almost one century (1912-2000). The purpose is to compare descriptions provided in these historiography writings, to unfold the similarities and differences. […]

There is a constant, unspoken but implied designation of history both as a science and as teaching subject that it should be subjected to a constant review. This designation turned postulate is taken for granted both by the genuine scientists and researchers, and by the teachers, as well as by the democratic societies and states in general. The impulse for […]

Fourteen years after the adoption of the 2006 Rehabilitation Act, it is still a struggle to find a competent court in Serbia that has not been passing rulings as per the said Act.[1] However, the special focus of this article is on the work of the District Court in Šabac. First of all, the District Court in Šabac was one of […]

Intellectual elites were a key factor in constituting the national awareness and the ideology of political nationalism in the 19th century Europe. There is plenty of evidence about the principal role that intellectuals, primarily historians, have played both in generating and disseminating nationalist ideologies and doctrines of ‘young’ European nations. They were assigned with the noble task to create, establish, and solidify an […]

Social changes, particularly those arising from conflict, prompt both communities and individuals to question whom they belong to and why, and what the source of their identity is. This is fertile ground for revisionism as the question of belonging – especially after the turns resulting in the loss of common identity (as was the case with the Yugoslav identity) is […]

For a long time, history was not just a science of the past but also a tool that political elites use to achieve their political goals. Such abuse of the past is evident also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, though maybe not to the extent as in Croatia and Serbia. Nonetheless, the waves of historical revisionism have flown over from Croatia […]