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Žumberak: A Sixteenth-Century Refugee Settlement Zone, Nicholas J. Miller

Nick Miller

This article examines the movement of Orthodox Christian refugees from Bosnia to the Habsburg Monarchy in the 1530s and their settlement in a district called Žumberak. The movement of these Uskoks has never been examined in the context of refugee studies. This study of a refugee movement and settlement over a five-century period offers the possibility of reaching a better understanding of the long-term outcome of refugee movements. Ultimately, this article suggests that the refugees affected the land they settled as much as the settlement zone affected them, and that, in this case, the refugees were able to define their …

Serbia Under The Swastika: A World War Ii Occupation, Nick Miller

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

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

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 …

Serbia Chooses Aggression, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

Using economic sanctions levied against Serbia, governments in the West are promoting the replacement of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic by some opposition figure. Such a change in personalities, they believe, would help to bring an end to the war in Bosnia. Unfortunately for this policy, the West's preferred opposition party, the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove), was recently emasculated by the arrest of its leader Vuk Draskovic.[1] But, with or without Draskovic, one must question whether any of the current opposition leaders in Serbia would be an improvement over Milosevic where the Serbian national question is concerned. Outsiders desperately …

Nationalism And Policymaking In The Balkans, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

The recent death of Slobodan Milosevic has renewed interest in the Balkan nationalism of the 1990s. There is no better place to start a discussion of nationalism in the Balkans than with the architect of Yugoslavia's violent collapse. Were the tragedies of the Balkan conflict the malevolent work of evil politicians or a logical and continuous-perhaps even inevitable-product of culture? Policymakers and theorists rarely interact, yet they have used the same template in their attempts to understand Balkan nationalism. Some have argued that nationalism in the Balkans was ancient or even organic (the "perennialist" approach), while others have seen nationalism …

The Nonconformists: Dobrica Cosic And Mica Popovic Reinvision Serbia, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

There is little to debate about the nature of Serbian political life since the mid-1980s-it has been highly nationalized, to the point that one can argue that a consensus existed among Serbian public figures that the Serbs' very existence was threatened by their neighbors. This consensus links political, cultural, and intellectual elites regardless of their ideological background. It draws together figures representing great diversity in Serbia. This powerful movement has usually been either dismissed or demonized: dismissed as superficial, the product of the cynical adaptation of politicians to new times, or demonized as something inherent in Serbian political culture, a …

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 …

Searching For The Serbian Havel, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

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Yugoslavia In 1968: Hopes, Crisis, Disappointment, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

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'Ljudevit Gaj', 'Karadjordje', And 'Josip Jelačić', Nick Miller

Nick Miller

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Early Modern Serbia, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

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Yugoslavia, Nick Miller

Nick Miller

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