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Two Strategies In Serbian Politics In Croatia And Hungary Before The First World War, Nick Miller
Two Strategies In Serbian Politics In Croatia And Hungary Before The First World War, Nick Miller
Nick Miller
With the recent attention given to the breakup of Yugoslavia, it is important to emphasize that the Serbs of Croatia and Hungary have always feared, rightly or wrongly, for their cultural, economic, and physical existence. The most prominent Serbian political parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Habsburg monarchy staked their reputations on their ability to defend the Serbian nation from cultural assimilation. The parties examined in this article were no exception. They believed that their primary task was to assure the continued existence of a Serbian nationality in Croatia and Hungary. In this article, the politics …
Beyond Journalism, Nick Miller
Beyond Journalism, Nick Miller
Nick Miller
"Journalists," wrote one historian regarding reporters in Yugoslavia, "are most effective when they stay faithful to their craft."1 Journalistic efforts to analyze and describe the wars in former Yugoslavia have not always followed that advice. Journalists had begun to abandon the region as public interest dwindled prior to the war in Kosovo, but the Kosovo conflict and the civilian massacres that have characterized the war have rekindled that interest. The time will come for studious examination of events, issues, and details, too tedious for journalists but the raison d'être of scholarship. But since the June 1991 outbreak of war in …
Mihiz In The Sixties: Politics And Drama Between Nationalism And Authoritarianism, Nick Miller
Mihiz In The Sixties: Politics And Drama Between Nationalism And Authoritarianism, Nick Miller
Nick Miller
Between 1981 and 1991, Serbian intellectual and political life were energized by a movement to overcome the legacies of the Tito regime. Tito himself had died in 1980, but his political heirs, insecure and unimaginative, had proclaimed that even though Tito was gone, his image would continue to guide and bind the peoples of Yugoslavia: "After Tito-Tito!" In Belgrade, the anti-Titoist movement began as a struggle for free expression. As Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz, one of the leaders of the Committee for the Protection of Artistic Freedom (founded in 1982), said later, all political freedom flows from the right to free …
Postwar Serbian Nationalism And The Limits Of Invention, Nick Miller
Postwar Serbian Nationalism And The Limits Of Invention, Nick Miller
Nick Miller
Serbs have rarely drawn the attention of theorists of nationalism. Nonetheless, even if they have not been christened this or that sort of nationalist by theorists, they have emerged from the 1990S with two sets of descriptors attached to them by journalists, scholars and politicians, and those descriptors conform to the general outlines of current theoretical discourse. Serbs are either the captives of 'ancient hatreds' or the manipulated victims of modern state-builders. By now most of us no doubt laugh at the notion that ancient hatreds were the catalyst of the wars in Yugoslaviain the 1990S and nod approvingly at …
Yugoslavia, Nick Miller