{"id":23610,"date":"2020-11-12T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=23610"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T18:28:37","slug":"christian-axboe-nielsen-yugoslavia-and-political-assassinations-the-history-and-legacy-of-titos-campaign-against-the-emigres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=23610","title":{"rendered":"Christian Axboe Nielsen, \u201cYugoslavia and Political Assassinations: The History and Legacy of Tito\u2019s Campaign Against the Emigr\u00e9s\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations<\/em> is the first book in English to analyse how and why the Yugoslav State Security Service carried out multiple targeted assassinations, over the country&#8217;s forty-six years of existence, under the pretext of protecting the Yugoslav communist party-state. Offering a detailed history of the programme, from the inception of the State Security Service to the recent trials of individuals involved, it draws on Christian Axboe Nielsen&#8217;s unique wealth of experience and research as an academic and as an expert witness in numerous criminal trials.<br><br>The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of targeted assassinations, communist history, state security services and related criminal trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preface\/Introduction<br>Chapter 1. The Establishment of the Yugoslav State Security Service<br>Chapter 2. Defining the Enemy: The Struggle against the \u201cEnemy \u00c9migr\u00e9s\u201d<br>Chapter 3. Agents, Infiltration and Surveillance: The Methods of the Yugoslav State Security<br>Service in \u00c9migr\u00e9 (Diaspora) Communities<br>Chapter 4. Taking the Fight to Them: The 1972 Bugojno Uprising and the Shift to an Offensive<br>Stance<br>Chapter 5. Murder in Munich: The Assassination of Stjepan \u00d0urekovic<br>Conclusion: The Revenge of the \u00c9migr\u00e9s in the Collapse of Yugoslavia<br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter years of prodigious research among the yellowing papers of several Yugoslav secret police archives, the historian Christian Nielsen has emerged to reveal the little-known story of the protracted, low-level war between violently anti-communist Croatian \u00e9migr\u00e9s and clandestine Yugoslav police organizations in the decades after the Second World War. In a masterful, richly-documented account leavened by several appearances as an expert witness in international criminal trials, Nielsen creates an indelible portrait of an insecure communist Yugoslav state constantly struggling to subdue mortal enemies who for decades had assassinated its diplomats and citizens on the streets and alleyways of cities around the globe.\u201d&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp; <strong>Robert Donia, University of Michigan, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations<\/em> by Christian Axboe Nielsen provides deep and new insights into the history of the targeted assassination program of the Yugoslav State Security Service. This is a topic hitherto hardly dealt with in academic historiography although emotionally and controversially discussed for decades already. Based on thorough archival work with variant sources produced by the Yugoslav Security institutions and the critical evaluation of earlier dubious \u00e9migr\u00e9 and existing journalistic writings, the author is setting new standards in dealing with this topic. He makes obvious how the leadership of socialist Yugoslavia systematically used targeted assassination as a means of protecting the party-state against political \u00e9migr\u00e9s (first and foremost, but not only, of Croatian Ustasha and right-wing background who saw themselves in and pursued a war against \u201cYugoslavia\u201d) in Western Europe and beyond. This is a highly professional, brilliant reconstruction of a complex history that should certainly be considered when reflecting upon the history of socialist rule in what was once Yugoslavia.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 <strong>Hannes Grandits, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christian Axboe Nielsen<\/strong> is Associate Professor of History and Human Security at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has worked as an analyst at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and has appeared as an expert witness in international and domestic criminal and civil cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 12-11-2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edition: 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extent: 264<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN: 9781788316866<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imprint: I.B. Tauris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/yugoslavia-and-political-assassinations-9781788316866\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/yugoslavia-and-political-assassinations-9781788316866\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jugoslavija i politi\u010dka ubistva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ovih je dana izdava\u010dka ku\u0107a Bloomsbury objavila knjigu pod naslovom \u201eYugoslavia and Political Assassinations .The History and Legacy of Tito\u2019s Campaign Against the Emigr\u00e9s\u201c, \u010diji je autor danski povjesni\u010dar Christian Axboe Nielsen. Rije\u010d je o knjizi koja analizira kako i za\u0161to je Jugoslovenska Slu\u017eba dr\u017eavne sigurnosti izvr\u0161ila niz ciljanih ubistva emigranata, tokom \u010detrdeset \u0161est godina postojanja zemlje, pod izgovorom za\u0161tite jugoslovenske komunisti\u010dke dr\u017eave. Knjiga nudi detaljnu historiju programa, od osnivanja Slu\u017ebe dr\u017eavne sigurnosti do nedavnih su\u0111enja pojedincima, oslanja se na brojne izvore koje je Nielsen prikupljao kao nau\u010dnik i kao vje\u0161tak u brojnim krivi\u010dnim su\u0111enjima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posebno poglavlje je posve\u0107eno slu\u010daju Bugojanske skupine 1972. godine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Izvor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=267\">https:\/\/www.historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=267<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nielsen.jpg?fit=500%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23613,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions\/23613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}