1. Yugoslav-Soviet Union relations from the 1950s to 1970s : Cooperation, Exchange, and Cultural Transfer through the Composers’ Association of Serbia (UKS) and the Union of Yugoslav Composers (SAKOJ)Maja Vasiljević, Biljana Leković, 2026, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: This study researches the cultural-music relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1970s, focusing on institutional cooperation led by Yugoslav composers’ associations – SAKOJ and UKS. While previous scholarship has largely overlooked classical composers and focused on macro-level cultural policies, this research addresses the underexplored role of art music in diplomatic and cultural exchanges during the Cold War. The study situates Yugoslav-Soviet musical relations within the broader socio-political context of post-World War II diplomacy, highlighting the impact of the 1948 Cominform resolution, the 1955 Belgrade and Moscow Declarations, and the liberalizing cultural policies of the 1960s. In this paper, we examined in greater detail the context of SAKOJ’s and UKS’s activities, and then, based on specific examples, illustrate how intercultural cooperation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union functioned. We highlighted the key problematic aspects of these relations, specifically through examples of music cooperation, exchange, and cultural transfer from the 1950s to the 1970s, such as the mechanisms of exchange of cultural workers and the principles of establishing copyright. We emphasized the significance of operating through institutional structures, and the role of associations in this process. Based on our research, it could be concluded that the SAKOJ/UKS adopted a strategic and interest-given relation to the Soviet Union. With respective members, presidents, and secretaries, and other board members, profiled cooperation with the Soviet Union was proposed by exchange of delegates for guest composers and music writers, as well as through performance and promotion of Yugoslav and Soviet repertoire.
Keywords: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, SAKOJ, UKS, cultural exchange, classical music
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2. The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain and “unofficial” musical diplomacy in Eastern EuropeJoanna Bullivant, 2026, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain was founded in 1945 with respectable patronage from grandees like Ralph Vaughan Williams and a business-like set of aims towards promoting the careers and rights of working composers and forming links with similar groups in other countries. Consequently, its role in Cold War diplomacy has understandably been overlooked in comparison with efforts like the legendary officially-sponsored visits of Benjamin Britten to the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1971. Nevertheless, as this paper will demonstrate, the Guild played an intriguing unofficial diplomatic role in the early postwar period. Composer and British communist Alan Bush, Chair of the Guild in 1947-8, used extensive travels in Eastern Europe to attempt to draw the Guild into diplomatic alliances associated with the Soviet sphere of influence. While his efforts ultimately failed, his connections remained important into the early 1960s with the successful 1960 visit to the USSR by Bush and then-Chair Elizabeth Maconchy. By tracing Bush’s unofficial diplomacy in these years and his influence upon the Guild, this paper will show the nuanced political role a national composers’ society could play, even in the face of an official national position far less receptive to relations with Eastern Europe.
Keywords: Alan Bush, Composers’ Guild of Great Britain, diplomacy, Yugoslavia, music and politics
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3. Analiza kulturno zaznamovanih elementov v angleškem prevodu romana Jugoslavija, moja dežela : magistrsko deloMaša Gustinčič, 2019, master's thesis Keywords: Vojnović, Goran: Jugoslavija, moja dežela, prevajanje, literarno prevajanje, prevajanje kulturno-zaznamovanih elementov, prevodne norme, podomačitev, potujitev, magistrske naloge, Vojnović, Goran: Yugoslavia, my fatherland, translation, literary translation, translating culturally specific elements, translation norms, domestication, foreigization
Published in RUP: 27.11.2019; Views: 8442; Downloads: 156
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4. Transnational resistance in the Alps-Adriatic-Area in 1939/40 : on subversive border-crossers, historical interpretations, and national politics of the pastPeter Pirker, 2012, original scientific article Keywords: MI6, SOE, TIGR, German exile, Austria, Carinthian Slovenes, resistance, pre-war Yugoslavia, politics of the past
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6. Collective memory and social identity : a social psychological exploration of the memories of the disintegration of former YugoslaviaMarja Kuzmanić, 2008, original scientific article Abstract: Through narration of memories of events related to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this study takes a social psychological approach and explores the generational and ethnic group differences in collective memories, social representations and social identities of peoples living in Slovenia. It represents an initial step at mapping out the differing collective memories, representations and identities of Slovenians and other former Yugoslav peoples now resident in Slovenia in relation to some of the major recent historical and political events (Tito's death, the wars in Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia, the beginning of the war(s), and the attainment of independence of Slovenia). Eighteen semi-structured interviews with members of three ethnic communities (Bosniac and Serb minority and Slovenian majority) were conducted and are qualitatively analysed. The findings are discussed in two sections. The first illustrates the contested interpretations of the break up of the federation, whereas the second section discusses the complex changes inidentification that occurred during the transition in the Slovenian context. Above all, the material reveals that contested narratives of the breakup of Yugoslavia (the narratives of 'transition', 'disintegration' and 'war') are present.
Keywords: kolektivni spomin, socialna identiteta, socialne predstave, narativ, razpad nekdanje Jugoslavije, collective memory, social identity, social representations, narratives, disintegration of former Yugoslavia
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7. Titovi pogovori v moskvi aprila 1968 in češkoslovaška krizaJan Pelikán, 2010, original scientific article Abstract: In April 1968, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia took certain steps indicating the rapprochement of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Belgrade welcomed Prague's interest in establishing closer contact. However, politicians in Belgrade refused to accept proposals which the Kremlin could perceive as an interference into its sphere of influence. The leadership of the SFRY, for example, did not respond to the offer for a conclusion to the Czechoslovak-Yugoslavian treaty of alliance. At the end of April 1968 J. Broz Tito paid an uplanned visit to Moscow. His talks with Kremlin politicians proceeded for a long time in a friendly atmosphere. Disagreement arose only during the course of a discussion about development in Czechoslovakia. The Soviet leaders unambiguously declared that the then leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was unable to maintain control of the situation and the power in country was to be taken over by counter-revolutionary forces. Brezhnev even warned against the danger of executing communists in Czechoslovakia and insisted on halting the unfavourable development. Josip Broz Tito overskipped Brezhnev's not very hidden references to the necessity of the power intervention in Czechoslovakia. Nevertheless, he irritably replied to the comment that development in Czechoslovakia could negatively influence not only the inner situation in the neighbouring socialist countries but also in Yugoslavia. Remarkably, during talks in Moscow, Tito never - even indirectly - made a mention of the positive trends of the development in Czechoslovakia. Yet he always suggested that the new Prague leadership was able to manage with those negative tendencies. Josip Broz Tito conspicuously endeavoured to maintain the existing standard of relations with the USSR and to not unnecessarily irritate the Kremlin. He was particularly afraid of the deterioration of the bilateral economic relations which could have had a negative impact on the Yugoslavian economy. Judging by the following steps we can anticipate, that positive moments predominated in Tito feelings regarding negotiations with the Kremlin leaders. He came back home convinced that although the Kremlin still viewed the SFRY as the potential troublesome element on the borderline of their sphere of interest, they were, on the other hand, essentially in need of Yugoslavian help in the solution of problems not only within the frame of the Communist movement but also within the Eastern block
Keywords: Prague Spring, international politics, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Tito, Soviet Union
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