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Association For Yugoslav Democratic Initiative
The Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative ( sh, Udruženje za jugoslovensku/jugoslavensku demokratsku inicijativu, UJDI) was a political party in SFR Yugoslavia. It is widely considered the first independent all-Yugoslav political movement. UJDI's basic tenets were the transformation of the state through democratization, freedom of thought and political activity, including free multi-party elections, as well as the support for Yugoslavia as a united federal state, as opposed to centralism and separatism. History In January 1989, UJDI's co-founder Predrag Matvejević described its goal as "making the Socialist Alliance f Working People of Yugoslaviainto a kind of an alternative party, a socialist one, in which alternative solutions and alternative cadres could arise, as well as the rectification of everything about the League of Communists f Yugoslaviathat was not working and was not good". UJDI was founded on February 2, 1989, in Zagreb, by a group of left-lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Federalism
Ethnic federalism, multi-ethnic or multi-national federalism,Liam D. Anderson (2016),"Ethnofederalism: The Worst form of institutional arrangement...?" Academia is a form of federal system in which the federated regional or state units are defined by ethnicity. Ethnic federal systems have been created in attempts to accommodate demands for ethnic autonomy and manage inter-ethnic tensions within a state. They have not always succeeded in this: problems inherent in the construction and maintenance of an ethnic federation have led to some states or sub-divisions of a state into either breaking up, resorting to authoritarian repression, or resorting to ethnocracy, ethnic segregation, population transfer, internal displacement, ethnic cleansing, and/or even ethnicity-based attacks and pogroms. This type of federation has been implemented since the 1990s by Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia. Meles Zenawi and his government adopted ethnic federalism with the aim of establishing the equality of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shkëlzen Maliqi
Shkëlzen Maliqi (born 26 October 1947) is a Kosovar philosopher, art critic, political analyst and intellectual. During the early 1990s, Shkelzen was also directly involved in politics. He was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo and served as its first president from 1991 to 1993. He also held leading positions in civil society organisations such as the Kosovo Civil Society Foundation (1995–2000) and the Kosovo Helsinki Committee (1990–1997). Maliqi has published several books on art and politics in Albanian, English, Italian, Spanish, and Serbian. From the beginning of the 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the most important media outlets in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia. Maliqi lives in Pristina and heads the "Gani Bobi" Institute for Social Studies. See also * Gani Bobi * Muhamedin Kullashi * Fatos Lubonja Fatos Lubonja (born 1951) is an Albanian writer and dissident. Life Fatos is the son of Todi Lubonja, who was a close associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jug Grizelj
A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold liquids. It has an opening, sometimes narrow, from which to pour or drink, and has a handle, and often a pouring lip. Jugs throughout history have been made of metal, and ceramic, or glass, and plastic is now common. In British English, jugs are pouring vessels for holding drinkable liquids, whether beer, water or soft drinks. In North American English these table jugs are usually called pitchers. Ewer is an older word for jugs or pitchers, and there are several others. Several other types of containers are also called jugs, depending on locale, tradition, and personal preference. Some types of bottles can be called jugs, particularly if the container has a narrow mouth and has a handle. Closures such as stoppers or screw caps are common for these retail packages. Etymology The word jug is first recorded in the late 15th century as ''jugge'' or ''jubbe''. It is of unknown origin, but perhaps comes from ''jug'' a term for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nenad Zakošek
Nenad (; Cyrillic script: Ненад) is a male personal name of Slavic origin common in countries that speak Slavic languages. It is more widespread in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and North Macedonia than in other countries. The name is derived from the word ''nenadan'', which means "unexpected". It was introduced to North Macedonia via Serbian and is now a fairly popular name. This name is often given to the younger of twins, in this case usually paired with the name Predrag, from the epic Serbian folk song "Predrag i Nenad". People *Nenad Adamović, Serbian football player *Nenad Bach, Croatian-American composer *Nenad Begović, Serbian football player *Nenad Bjeković, former director of FK Partizan *Nenad Bjeković (footballer born 1974), Serbian football player * Nenad Bjelica, Croatian football player and coach *Nenad Bogdanović, former mayor of Belgrade *Nenad Brnović, Montenegrin football player *Nenad Buljan, Croatian Olympic swimmer * Nenad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predrag Vranicki
Predrag Vranicki (21 January 192231 January 2002) was a Marxist Humanist and member of the Praxis school in the 1960s in Yugoslavia. Life Vranicki was born in 1922, in Benkovac, Croatia. During World War II he fought with the National Liberation Army against the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. He received a diploma in philosophy from the University of Zagreb in 1947 and earned his PhD from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1951. From 1964 to 1966 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, and rector of the Zagreb University from 1972 to 1976. Vranicki became president of the Yugoslav Society for Philosophy in 1966, and in 1979 he was elected as a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. When the dissident ''Praxis'' journal was initiated in 1965, he joined its editorial board. Major works He was interested in the problems of humanism, history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibor Várady
Tibor Várady (born May 25, 1939, Zrenjanin Yugoslavia) is a legal scholar. He has also earned recognition as a writer. He was one of the founders of the Hungarian language avant-garde literary magazine "Új Symposion" published in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) that was challenging political confines. Between 1969 and 1971 he was managing editor, and in November 1971 he defended the magazine in court proceedings aiming to ban the Új Symposion. He received his law degree at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, and he received an S.J.D. at Harvard Law School. Between July 1992 and December 1992 he was Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the government of Milan Panić. After Mr. Panić lost the elections against Milošević in December 1992, Tibor Várady started teaching in the U.S. and in Hungary. He kept ties with Yugoslavia (later Serbia), particularly after the fall of Milošević, and remained an active member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić (; born 27 March 1949) is a Yugoslav and later Croatian writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996 and refuses to identify as a Croatian writer. Early life and education Ugrešić was born on 27 March 1949 in Kutina, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). Her mother was an ethnic Bulgarian from Varna. She majored in comparative literature and Russian language at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Arts, pursuing parallel careers as a scholar and as a writer. After graduation, she continued to work at the university, at the Institute for Theory of Literature. In 1993, she left Croatia for political reasons. She has spent time teaching at European and American universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill, UCLA, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and Columbia University. She is based in Amsterdam where she is a freelance writer and contributor to several American and European literary magazines and newspapers. Writing Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubomir Tadić
Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир "Љуба" Тадић; 14 May 1925 – 31 December 2013) was a Serbian academic and politician. He was born in Smriječno village near Plužine, then in the Kingdom Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was a Belgrade Law School graduate and a professor of philosophy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy as well as a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His father Pavle Tadić was a lieutenant of the Montenegrin Army in the wars against the Ottoman Empire. Pavle opened the first school in Piva, during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Tadić was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia in December 1989. He was one of the leaders of the pro-European movement in Serbia. Tadić was of the Piva Herzegovinian clan. Tadić was married to psychiatrist Nevenka Kićanović and had two children. His son Boris Tadić served as the President of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Ljuba Tadić died in Belgrade, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Supek
Rudi Supek (Zagreb, 8 April 1913 – Zagreb, 2 January 1993) was a Croatian sociologist, philosopher and a member of the Praxis School of Marxism. Supek studied philosophy in Zagreb and graduated in 1937. He went to study clinical psychology in Paris, where he was when World War II erupted. He joined the resistance movement, but soon was captured and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he took part in the Buchenwald Resistance. After the liberation, Supek went back to Paris to continue living and studying there. In 1948, after the Informbiro Resolution against Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia, the leader of the French Communists Maurice Thorez asked Supek, who was a member of the French Communist Party, to attack Titoism. Supek refused to comply and returned to Yugoslavia. However, he did not become a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Supek earned his PhD from the Sorbonne in 1952 and started to work as a professor at the Department of Psychology of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Božidar Gajo Sekulić
Božidar (Bulgarian, Macedonian, sr-cyr, Божидар, pl, Bożydar, sometimes transliterated as Bojidar, or Bozhidar) is a Slavic given name meaning "Divine gift". It is a calque of the Greek name Theodore, itself derived from the Greek word "Theodoros". Božo is a nickname form of Božidar. People with the name include: *Božidar Adžija (1890–1941), Yugoslav left-wing politician and journalist * Božidar "Boško" Antić (born 1944), Bosnian Serb striker *Božidar Antunović (born 1991), Serbian shot putter *Božidar Bandović (born 1969), Serbian football manager and former player *Božidar Beravs (born 1948), Slovenian ice hockey player *Bozidar Brazda (born 1972), artist, writer, and musician *Božidar Čačić (born 1972), Croatian retired football defender * Božidar Ćosić (born 1982), Serbian professional footballer *Božidar Debenjak (born 1935), Slovenian Marxist philosopher, social theorist and translator *Božidar Delić (born 1956), retired Yugoslav Army general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubiša Ristić
Ljubiša ( sr, Љубиша) is Serbian masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: *Ljubiša Beara (1939–2017), Bosnian Serb who participated in the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina *Ljubiša Broćić (1911–1995), Serbian football manager *Ljubiša Diković (born 1960), Serbian general officer *Ljubiša Dmitrović (born 1969), Serbian football player and manager *Ljubiša Dunđerski (born 1972), former Serbian international football player * Ljubiša Jokić (born 1958), former general in the Military of Serbia and Montenegro *Visarion Ljubiša (1823–1884), the Metropolitan bishop of Orthodox church in Montenegro from 1882 to 1884 *Ljubiša Milojević (born 1967), former Serbian footballer who played as a forward * Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša (1824–1878), Montenegrin writer and politician *Ljubiša Petruševski (died 2002), Serbian oboist and the Dean of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade *Ljubiša Rajković (born 1950), Serbian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia *Ljubiš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlo Štajner
Karlo Štajner (15 January 1902 – 1 March 1992) was an Austrian-Yugoslav communist activist and a prominent Gulag survivor. Štajner was born in Vienna, where he joined the Communist Youth of Austria, but emigrated to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1922 on the order of the Young Communist International to help the newly established Communist Party of Yugoslavia. After an illegal communist printing house in Zagreb where Štajner worked was searched by the police in 1931, he fled Yugoslavia, visiting Paris, Vienna, and Berlin before finally settling in the Soviet Union in 1932 where he worked in the Comintern publishing house in Moscow. During the Great Purge in 1936, Štajner was arrested and spent the next 17 years in prisons and gulags and three more years in exile in Siberia. He was released in 1956 after being rehabilitated, and returned to Yugoslavia. He spent the rest of his life in Zagreb with his wife Sonya whom he married in Moscow in the 1930s. In 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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