Summary
Kosta Nikolić: The Myth of Partisan Yugoslavia
This monograph of Kosta Nikolić, a well-known Serbian historian of the younger generation, was created as a result of work on the project Serbian society in the Yugoslav state in the 20th century - between democracy and dictatorship. The study deals with the deconstruction of the myth of "partisan Yugoslavism", i.e. the history of the communist interpretation of the Yugoslav idea and the position of Serbia in the projected federation from the formation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1919) to the end of the Second World War (1945). The study especially emphasizes that after the war, the communists wanted to form a "new society" that would break with the past, so it was necessary to create a desirable projection of history. Along the way, enormous energy was spent in order to cancel, suppress and change the content of the past and impose a new vision of the world and desirable social values, according to Nikolić.
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