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Historiography In The Service of Politics (Istorografia U Sluzbi Politike)
by Vasilije Krestic
Available for $25 (U.S) in a beautiful hardcover edition.
Contains both the original Serbian text and English translation,
127 pages, published in Belgrade in 2004 (includes shipping
costs).
JRI Review:
In this closely analyzed and penetrating study, Vasilije Krestic,
one of Serbia's leading historians, examines the widespread
corruption of Croatian academics in North America and their
promotion of graduate students to PhD's. By producing an ever
larger crop of newly minted PhD's trained in the school of
Croatian falsification, the future of academia is assured as a
means of promoting the political agenda of historical
revisionism in the service of Croatian ultra-nationalism and
Western neo-colonialism in the Balkans. Dr. Krestic's book
examines the infamous school of Croatian nationalism under the
tutelage of Ivo Banac at Yale University and one of its most
recent graduates William Brooks Tomljanovich. Tomljanovich's PhD
dissertation on the 19th century Croatian Bishop Josip
Strossmayer now published in book form provides the case study
for Krestic's anaylsis. In his study Krestic notes:
"We decided to devote attention to V. Tomljanovich's book not
only because of the importance of its topic but also in order to
illustrate with his example the course Croatian historiography
is following, its methods of work and aims, to what extent it is
science and to what extent in the service of daily politics."
Noting in his conclusion that Dr. Tomljanovic has now found
employment as a "Balkans expert" at the U.N.'s Hague Tribunal,
Krestic concludes that
"...Tomljanovic is part of the Hague expert group whose members
could not care less for science and moral standards. Their
primary task is demonization of the Serbs and distortion of
history for political reasons...."
Dr. Krestic's analysis carefully exposes the numerous errors and
shortcomings in Tomljanovic's study and the way in which the
final product manipulates the past for political purposes.
This book is a must read for anyone concerned with the history
of the Balkans and the current state of Balkans studies. -
Jasenovac Research Institute
The Jasenovac Research Institute is pleased to make this book
available in North America in cooperation with Gambit Publishers
in Belgrade.
To order: mail your check or money order for $25 US,
payable to:
Jasenovac Research Institute
PO Box 10-0674
Brooklyn, NY 11210
USA
e-mail your inquiries to:
info@jasenovac.org
Interviews and Testimonies Edited by
Gregory Elich and Barry Lituchy with a preface by Michael
Parenti. Available for $22 from JRI. This "White Book" documents
the findings of the North American Solidarity with Yugoslavia
Delegation (sponsored by the JRI).
To order: mail your check or money order for $22 US, payable to:
Jasenovac Research Institute
PO Box 10-0674
Brooklyn, NY 11210
USA
e-mail your inquiries to:
info@jasenovac.org
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