{"id":56175,"date":"2026-11-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=56175"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:34:57","slug":"the-youngest-yugoslavs-an-oral-history-of-post-socialist-memory-jovana-babovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=56175","title":{"rendered":"\u201eThe Youngest Yugoslavs. An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory\u201c \u2013 Jovana Babovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jovana Babovi\u0107 u knjizi <em>The Youngest Yugoslavs. An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory<\/em> analizira kolektivna sje\u0107anja posljednje generacije Jugoslavena na njihovo odrastanje u socijalisti\u010dkoj Jugoslaviji te na\u010din na koji su se suo\u010dili s raspadom zajedni\u010dke dr\u017eave i njezinim naslje\u0111em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>O knjizi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflecting on the final decades of socialism, eight individuals born in former Yugoslavia between 1971 and 1991 recount their memories of childhood and early adulthood, and how that time period has made a lasting impact on their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Youngest Yugoslavs<\/em>&nbsp;is an oral history collection that gives its readers in-depth, varied perspectives on why Yugoslavia continues to resonate among its former citizens more than 30 years since the state collapsed amid war, genocide, and dislocation. Their interviews with author Jovana Babovi\u0107&#8217; showcase how these individuals remember their childhoods during the final decades of socialism and how they conceptualize the lasting impact Yugoslavia has had on their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Youngest Yugoslavs<\/em>&nbsp;offers insight on how this generation of Yugoslav individuals have reconciled the loss of their homeland and how they have continued to find meaning in the Yugoslav past as both a lived experience and as a set of ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sadr\u017eaj&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glossary of Key Concepts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Interview with Luka Lisjak Gabrijel\u010di\u010d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Interview with Krisztina R\u00e1cz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Interview with Artan Sadiku<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Interview with Iva Radivojevi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Interview with Gordan Peji\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Interview with Elena Stavrevska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. Interview with Bojan \u0160tevin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. Interview with Melinda Vukovi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suggested Discussion Questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN: 9780253073952<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">266p&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/iupress.org\/9780253073952\/the-youngest-yugoslavs\/\">https:\/\/iupress.org\/9780253073952\/the-youngest-yugoslavs\/<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/knjige\/svijet\/najmladji-jugoslaveni\">https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/knjige\/svijet\/najmladji-jugoslaveni<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"Jovana Babovi\u0107 u knjizi The Youngest Yugoslavs. An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory analizira kolektivna sje\u0107anja posljednje generacije Jugoslavena na njihovo odrastanje u socijalisti\u010dkoj Jugoslaviji te na\u010din na koji su se suo\u010dili s raspadom zajedni\u010dke dr\u017eave i njezinim naslje\u0111em."},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/The-Youngest-Yugoslavs.webp?fit=985%2C1275&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54962,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54962","url_meta":{"origin":56175,"position":0},"title":"Branka Bogdan, &#8220;The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"13. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"From 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex education and contraception, and laws that supported reproductive choice. 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