THE UNIVERSITY HERALD 1948-1956 - AN ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS’ ASSOCIATION Cover Image

УНИВЕРЗИТЕТСКИ ВЕСНИК (1948-1956) - ЛИСТ УДРУЖЕЊА УНИВЕРЗИТЕТСКИХ НАСТАВНИКА БЕОГРАДСКОГ УНИВЕРЗИТЕТА
THE UNIVERSITY HERALD 1948-1956 - AN ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS’ ASSOCIATION

Author(s): Dragomir Bondžić
Subject(s): Education, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Higher Education , History of Education, State/Government and Education, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: Yugoslavia; Communist party; postwar period; Marxism; ideology; education system; higher education;

Summary/Abstract: After World War II, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, maintaining a firm grasp on power systematically introduced its party ideology into every segment of reality, successfully penetrating every pore of society. The principles of Marxism and Leninism were persistently imposed and instilled in the educational process. A favorite means of spreading party propaganda was the press. Belgrade universities as the highest educational institutions in the country, and their professors whose duty it was to educate generations of the young in the spirit of Marxism and Leninism but who mostly felt a reluctance towards the communist ideology and political practice were constantly under the Party’s wary and distrustful eye. As a result, the Party’s propagandist activity was particularly intense at universities. The Association of University Professors, founded in 1946, functioned as a part of this type of activity, while its bulletin, the University Herald was established in 1948 as a means of achieving the ideological, political, and propagandist objectives of the Yugoslav Communist Party within the University. An incentive to start the paper was given in June 1948, in the directives communicated at the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, particularly in the speech regarding propagandist work delivered by Milovan Djijas. The founding, the operation, and every article written in the University Herald were under the full and constant control of the Party. The new course gained momentum after the Fourth Congress of the Communist .Party of Yugoslavia, in November 1952, following which the University Herald became largely dedicated to academic and scientific subjects. The diminishing ideological pressure, however, led to the gradual closing of the paper, which following two lengthy pauses in publication, ceased to operate in 1956.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-174
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian