The Pre-history of the Non-Aligned Movement
This article focuses on the pre-history of the Non-Aligned Movement and of the friendship between Pandit Nehru and Tito from Yugoslavia. It explores the various levels of contacts between Indians and Yugoslavs in the second half of the 1940s, among communists, diplomats, United Nations delegation members and participants of a Yugoslav trade delegation to South Asia. Special attention is given to the question of why Yugoslavia was a rather uninteresting or even hostile country to India in the years immediately after the end of World War II, but grew to be an attractive partner in the aftermath of Tito's break with Stalin, when the country tried to survive between the Anglo–American and Soviet blocs.
Basare und Boulevards : Belgrad im 19. Jahrhundert
Vorliegende Stadtgeschichte stellt den Wandel Belgrads von einer osmanischen Garnisonsstadt zur europaorientierten Balkanmetropole vor. Spannend zu lesen, geht sie methodisch neue Wege. Auf einer Zeitreise lasst sie anhand ausgewahlter Ereignisse historische Akteurinnen und Akteure zu Wort kommen. Sie berichtet aus dem Tagebuch einer jungen Aristokratin, beobachtet einen Bauern vor Gericht, begleitet den Polizeiminister auf seinem Gang durch die bombardierte Altstadt, richtet mit der judischen Gemeinde eine Petition an den Fursten, und verfolgt den Briefwechsel einer Politikergattin. Diese erste deutschsprachige Geschichte Belgrads richtet sich an ein Fachpublikum und an interessierte Laien.
Economic Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia
This 1973 posthumous publication of Rudolf BiA‡aniA‡'s last work on the Yugoslav economy is a fitting tribute to a great Yugoslav of the pre-war era, who survived the revolution and made a notable contribution to the new Yugoslavia. BiA‡aniA‡ was a man of broad learning, equally at home as a geographer, an economist and a political scientist, who was also a man of affairs. His book provides a lucid survey of the economic development of Yugoslavia from 1918 to the 1970s. BiA‡aniA‡ discusses the three planning models used in post-war Yugoslavia - the centralized (1947â€“1951), the decentralized (1952â€“1964) and the polycentric (1965â€“1970) - and discusses the implications of these models in the context of Yugoslavia's industrialization. The book is not only essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Yugoslavia's economic background, but it also raises questions of general interest concerning the application of socialist principles to the industrialization of developing societies.