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Bosnia-Herzegovina - The Core of the Greater Serbia Project

Bosna i Hercegovina - jezgro velikosrpskog projekta

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Serbian

"The international community's recognition of Bosnia-Herzegovina on April 6, 1991 set into motion the formidably brutal policy of extinction of the Muslim population. From April to August 1991, the Serbs have actually occupied 70 percent of Bosnia's territory. Numerous cases that have been or are still processed by the tribunal in The Hague testify of that. Many have not even been investigated so far, particularly those related to Eastern Bosnia and the Drina River valley. The Serbian troop's blitzkrieg besieged Sarajevo in couple of days only. "The siege of Sarajevo begun earlier in 1991. The fact that the Army entrenched itself all round Sarajevo as early as in autumn 1991 and distributed arms to the Serbian population also testifies that the aggression against Bosnia was planned way back. It was in October 1991 that Radovan Karadzic, preparing the Serbian population in Bosnia-Herzegovina for a plebiscite, said, "You must take over the power energetically and totally. Regardless of what will come out of Bosnia, no foundation for a Muslim house shall be laid in Serbian lands or in a Serbian village. Any foundation laid will be blown to pieces. The world will understand our opposition to any change in demographic structure be it natural or artificial. Our territories belong to us alone. We may be hungry, but we'll stick to those territories. This will be a battle for life or death, the battle for living space." Referring to possible difficulties with the international community, Karadzic said, "Foreign observers will come for sure, they'll keep everything under surveillance. They'll be malevolent. All of them will be malevolent except for those we'll acquire from England - only they will be objective," says the editor in Chapter I - "Destruction of Bosnia." Chapter II presents a chronology of the Bosnian war, Chapter III carries testimonies before the tribunal in The Hague, mostly expert testimonies, Chapter IV stands for a Sarajevo "dossier," Chapter V deals with the media presentation of the war in Bosnia, while Chapter VI carries integral sentences in Galic and Plavsic cases.

An Overview of Bosnia-Herzegovina ’s Archival Collections on the Second World War

Stanje arhivske građe o Drugom svjetskom ratu u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): Mina Kujović / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

This work provides an overview of archival materials on the Second World War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kujović notes that although many documents were produced in Bosnia during the war, not all of them are located in the country. A large portion of the material (especially that dealing with the military sphere) can be found in archives in Belgrade and Zagreb. Unfortunately, sixty years since the end of the war, most of the wartime collections remain uncatalogued, and the largest collection – ZAVNOHBiH – is divided between two archives in Sarajevo – the State Archives of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the archives of the Historical Museum. These issues make it difficult for scholars to adequately research this important period.

The Postwar Communist system and Public Behaviour

Poslijeratni komunistički sustav i javno ponašanje

Author(s): Ljubomir Antić / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

The author directs his attention at the public behaviour of individuals and groups within the context of the totalitarian communist system of Socialist Yugoslavia. In imitation of the Soviet system, the postwar communist regime in Yugoslavia had as its goal the total control and direction of society and individuals. Proceeding uncompromisinly it killed every hope of the possibility of change. Constructing a closed society, the system did not create the opportunity for choice. From the middle of 1945, those who did not accept a totalitarian Yugoslavian government as their own, in order to survive, had to adapt. The most common form was to act under false pretenses: individuals kept their own convictions to themselves, but out of oportunism they presented themselves in public according to the demands of the ≪new times.≫ The new situation was especially reflected in family life. Double upbringing: private at home and public in kindergarten and school, was a common occurence in this era. Religion, but also spirituality in general, were relegated to family and church (sacristy). Artists were especially challenged to conform to the official style – socialist realism. Public manners and style came under the powerful influence of the ruling ideology. Official unidimensional reality fell upon human spirits like a uniform grayness. People lived in the same gray apartment blocks in identical apartments. The village too had to accept on uniformity. In creating the new man, weak as he was, the citizen had to surrender to the subject, and the integral person to the homo duplex, or the man without a chest.

Memoirs of Yugoslav Revolutionary

Memoari jugoslavenskog revolucionera

Author(s): Vicko Krstulović / Language(s): Croatian

Critique Of Firepower

Kritika vatrene moći

Author(s): Teofil Pančić / Language(s): Serbian

Something old died slowly without ever maturing, and nothing new was on the horizon and probably will not be for the foreseeable future; in that constellation of events, on the horizon appeared (it could be said without exaggeration, like a vampire) something older than old, and it tried to present itself as something completely new and completely good – even more, as something we have always been waiting for. But probably we did not know that we were waiting for just that, and that it would look just like that. It is disconcerting to see how much people believed in that, and even more who believed in it… Critique of Firepower principally tries to “capture” the moment at which things had not completely come together (or come apart) in that direction, but they were clearly rushing that way. In that regard it probably makes sense to regard this book as the last in the series I have called “Life and death in Serbian post-Communism.” Why the last? Because one epochal circle has been closed. Urban Bushmen followed the “proud stumble” across the 1990s and the slow, painful birth of the “October 5 Revolution,” as the first twelve year of the 21st century in Serbia might be called. The following books Keepers of the Bengal Fire, Through the Cliffs and Refitting the Time Machine (also Karmacoma, as a stand-alone “project”) chronicle the various meanderings of that revolutionary order, which was undertaken with more hope than reason, power or, especially, moral or any other kind of constancy. This book traces, by looking at the three-year period from 2010 to 2012, something that could be called without exaggeration the death and departure of the “Republic of 5th October.” This republic begins its life on the basis of a (declarative) break and discontinuity with the Serbian 1990s, and, it is understood, with the period that preceded. And it ends with the resurrection of the people we remember from our dark(est) past, as its creators and enablers, to come to power again ostensibly to do us the favour of lifting us out of that very past. With that, a new era has arrived. My job remains to announce its arrival and to trace its development. It will definitely not be dull, and you will have more to read – if we have the chance. Teofil Pančić September 2013

Belgrade on the "New Wave". Music as an Element of Forming the Local Identity

Beograd na "Novom talasu". Muzika kao element konstrukcije lokalnog identiteta

Author(s): Marija Ristivojević / Language(s): Serbian

Keywords: Music - anthropological aspect

The topic of this research is understanding a two-wayrelationship between the concepts of music and place. Thehypothesis I am starting from is that music has an“ability" to create an identity of a certain space. Morespecifically, that would mean that music can have animpact on the establishing a set of images and knowledgeof a specific city through daily social interactions (such assocializing, going out, going to concerts). In this case, “anidentity of a city", comprises everything that is identifiedas an important identification mark within a specificsociocultural context and understood in that way, can bereflected in different physical places (e.g. a club, culturalcenter, café, park, square), and in various modes ofeveryday living in that particular city and in experiencesthat evolve from it (e.g. daily routes within a city, aspecific style of speech, topics for conversation). Theexample which I have chosen to analyze this relationshipon is the new wave rock-and-roll music scene in Belgradein the eighties. Although this music phenomenon is notsomething that accounts for an original local product, itpossesses its local authenticity. Therefore, my goal is toexplore the process of creating that specific Belgradeidentity, and draw attention to the features which makethe authentic local phenomenon of this musical “wave".Analyzing current narratives about this phenomenon inthe local discourse, I endeavor to identify and abstract thekey elements of the “new wave" Belgrade identity andconsider them in the light of the theories (in the first placeanthropological) which treat music and place as asociocultural (and therefore contextually dependent andfluid) categories. The analysis is based on the interviewswhich have been made during the summer of 2011.

Overhauling the Time Machine

Vremeplov na remontu

Author(s): Teofil Pančić / Language(s): Serbian

Teofil Pančić was born in Skopje in 1965. He writes columns, essays, commentaries, and literary reviews for the weekly magazine Vreme, as well as for other media in Serbia and surrounding areas. Before publishing the present work, The 20th Century Library had published the first three volumes of his series of books with the common title Life and Death in Serbian Post-communism (Život i smrt u srpskom postkomunizmu): The Urban Bushmen (Urbani bušmani, 2001), The Keepers of Bengal Fireworks (Čuvari bengalske vatre, 2004), Navigating Through Canyons (Kroz klisurine, 2007), as well a volume of his columns, entitled Karma Coma (Karma koma, 2007). The texts in the present volume cover the period from 2006 to 2009.

Essay in Anthropology of Old Age

Ogledi iz antropologije starosti

Author(s): Ljubica Milosavljević / Language(s): Serbian

Big Books and Big Cats

Debele knjige i debele mačke

Author(s): Dimitrije Boarov / Language(s): Serbian

Gotovo protestantska, „malograđanska vizija“, navodno izmišljena u Vojvodini po ugledu na druge evropske nacije, večito je kod nas osuđivana i omalovažavana iz sredina koje su za ideju nacionalnog oslobođenja i ujedinjenja vekovima krvarile po šumama i gorama naše zemlje ponosne. Naučeni da uz ladan burek i vruće pivo preziremo malograđanštinu, nastavili smo da preziremo i Vojvodinu. Možda će se ovakvo shvatanje u Srbiji promeniti po sledećoj logici zaključivanja: Vojvodina je bila opasno provincijalna i malograđanska, sve dok nismo belodano videli da je i malograđanština mnogo bolja od varvarstva.

Coca-Cola Socialism. Americanization of Yugoslav Culture in the Sixties

Coca-Cola Socialism. Americanization of Yugoslav Culture in the Sixties

Author(s): Radina Vučetić / Language(s): English

Keywords: Socialism and culture; popular culture; Yugoslavia; USA; Nineteen sixties; Foreign relations;

This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and consumption the Yugoslav regime was definitely much more receptive to the American model. For Titoist Yugoslavia this tactic turned out to be beneficial, stabilising the regime internally and providing an image of openness in foreign policy.Coca-Cola Socialism addresses the link between cultural diplomacy, culture, consumer society and politics. Its main argument is that both culture and everyday life modelled on the American way were a major source of legitimacy for the Yugoslav Communist Party, and a powerful weapon for both USA and Yugoslavia in the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Radina Vučetić explores how the Party used American culture in order to promote its own values and what life in this socialist and capitalist hybrid system looked like for ordinary people who lived in a country with communist ideology in a capitalist wrapping. Her book offers a careful reevaluation of the limits of appropriating the American dream and questions both an uncritical celebration of Yugoslavia’s openness and an exaggerated depiction of its authoritarianism.

THE HIGHEST INSTANCE – VOLUME III

POSLEDNJA INSTANCA – KNJIGA III

Author(s): Srđa Popović / Language(s): Serbian

Keywords: censorship;censorship in communist countries; communism and democracy; dissident intellectuals; dissident journalist; political trials; law in communism; propaganda;

Report on Human Rights in Serbia in 2014: Political Culture vs. Europeanization

Report on Human Rights in Serbia in 2014: Political Culture vs. Europeanization

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

Keywords: Serbia; government; civil sector; human rights; elections; Russia; Kosovo; economy; media; security; international relations; Vojislav Šešelj;

Serbia is once again at crossroad that calls for the engagement of its entire society. The steps the government has made toward EU accession are insufficient, the more so since the government itself is not unanimous about the course. This is more than evident in the implementation of the Brussels Agreement. The great majority of citizens knows nothing or knows little about what a membership of EU implies. Besides, most major national institutions such as Serb Orthodox Church, parts of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (now trying to change its course), influential intellectuals and parts of the civil sector are not committed to the values on which EU rests. Turbulence within EU itself and disorientation of some member-states play into the hands of EU opponents and fuel their resistance. Human rights and freedoms have regressed considerably over the past three years, the backsliding itself escalating during the state of emergency declared because of floods (May 15-23, 2014) and in the aftermath. Requiring expertise and, above all, preventive measures, the crisis situation itself revealed the government’s weaknesses and its attitude toward key issues of further democratization.

Cultural and historical monuments of western Slavonia with an overview of the history of western Slavonia from prehistory to the 20th century

Kulturno – historijski spomenici zapadne Slavonije s pregledom povijesti zapadne Slavonije od prapovijesti do 20. stoljeća

Author(s): Filip Škiljan / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Western Slavionia; historical-cultural monuments of Western Slavonia;

Nakon pisanja o kulurno-historijskim spomenicima Korduna i Banije odlučio sam se za rad na obimnijoj temi, koja obuhvaća znatno veće područje. Knjiga koja je pred vama govori o kulturno- historijskim spomenicima zapadne Slavonije, kraja koji sam počeo istraživati još 2004. godine obilazeći spomenike oko Grubišnog Polja. U vrijeme svojeg rada u Spomen-području Jasenovac između 2003. i 2006. godine obišao sam spomenike u okolici Novske i Okučana, a nakon odluke da pišem o ovom području ciljano sam obilazio kulturno-historijske spomenike virovitičkog, pakračkog, slatinskog, daruvarskog i novogradiškog područja. Iznenađujuće je velik broj spomenika u ovom kraju. U katalogu, koji je glavni sadržaj ove knjige, nalazi se čak 536 lokaliteta. Obuhvaćeni su, kao i u prethodne dvije knjige, arheološki lokaliteti, srednjovjekovne utvrde, dvorci te pravoslavne i katoličke crkve. Kao ni u prethodnim dvjema knjigama nisam obrađivao antifašističke spomenike, koji bi svakako zaslužili posebnu publikaciju. Svjestan nedorečenosti i nekompletnosti prethodnih dviju knjiga, odlučio sam se potražiti pomoć prilikom pisanja ove nove knjige u lokalnim muzejima, konzervatorskim odjelima Ministarstva kulture i kod samih stanovnika zapadne Slavonije. Ovom prilikom se stoga posebno zahvaljujem na pomoći gospođi Kristini Zloušić iz Konzervatorskog odjela Ministarstva kulture u Zagrebu, gospodinu Žarku Španičeku u Konzervatorskom odjelu u Požegi, gospodinu Milanu Pezelju iz Konzervatorskog odjela u Bjelovaru, gospodinu Krešimiru Karlu iz Konzervatorskog odjela u Bjelovaru, gospođi Ivani Miletić iz Konzervatorskog odjela u Sisku, gospođi Željki Peroković iz Konzervatorskog odjela u Slavonskom Brodu, gospođi Dragici Šuvak iz Gradskog muzeja u Slatini, gospođi Silviji Salajić iz Gradskog muzeja u Virovitici, gospodinu Radi Bosancu iz Poljana, parohu gospodinu Luki Bosancu iz Daruvara, gospodinu Gojku Bosancu iz Brusnika, gospodinu Mladenu Kuliću iz Slatine, gospodinu Darku Derenju iz Lipika, gospođi Jeleni Hihlik iz muzeja u Pakracu, gospodinu Đorđu Mihoviloviću iz Nove Gradiške, gospodinu Slavku Čiči iz Slavonskog Broda, gospodinu dr. Đuri Zatezalu iz Karlovca, gospodinu Miroslavu Markovu iz Slavonskog Broda i brojnim drugim poznatim i nepoznatim Slavoncima koji su mi na mojim putovanjima pomagali da pronađem pojedine spomenike i da o njima doznam podatke.

Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in 2015

Govor mržnje i nasilje prema Srbima u 2015.

Author(s): Tamara Opačić / Language(s): English,Croatian

Keywords: hate speech; hate speech against Serbs;

The year behind us was marked by an increased number of physical assaults on Serbs in Croatia, threats against them and destruction of their property. In 2015 Cyrillic script1 in Vukovar was practically abolished and we have witnessed numerous attempts to rehabilitate the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)2 as well as an increased incidence of hate speech by public figures and part of the media. For this reason 2015 will be remembered as the year in which nationalist and anti-minority atmosphere – which became more intense since Croatia’s accession to the European Union in 2013 – has reached a worrying scale.

OIL ON WATER. Views from the History of the Present of Serbia

ULJE NA VODI. Ogledi iz istorije sadašnjosti Srbije

Author(s): Dubravka Stojanović / Language(s): Serbian

BOSZNIAC NATIONALISM. Nation building strategies after 1995

BOSZNIACKI NACJONALIZM. Strategie budowania narodu po 1995 roku

Author(s): Tomasz Rawski,Tomasz Rawski / Language(s): Polish

Książka poświęcona jest zagadnieniu budowania narodów w Europie Południowo-Wschodniej. Autor na przykładzie nacjonalizmu boszniackiego w Bośni i Hercegowinie pokazuje, że naród powstaje w trakcie nieustannej walki politycznej o treści symboliczne, które stanowią o jego istocie. Na podstawie reinterpretacji historycznego procesu wyłaniania się boszniackiego nacjonalizmu oraz systematycznej analizy współczesnej polityki pamięci odnoszącej się do wojny lat 1992–1995 Tomasz Rawski przedstawia specyfikę procesu budowania narodu – jego złożoną, wielowątkową dynamikę, pełną wewnętrznych napięć, tarć i sprzeczności.***Praca jest bogatym w warstwie empirycznej, oryginalnym teoretycznie wkładem w dyskusję o procesach narodowotwórczych i polityce pamięci na terenie byłej Jugosławii. (...) To dzieło dojrzałe, spójne, wciągające i bardzo potrzebne na polskim rynku wydawniczym.dr hab. Marcin Lubaś, prof. UJKsiążka Tomasza Rawskiego to nie tylko wąskie studium przypadku przeznaczone dla niewielkiego grona specjalistów; ze względu na teoretyczne zaplecze powinna zainteresować szersze grono czytelników – wszystkich, którzy chcieliby pogłębić swoją wiedzę na temat współczesnej teorii narodu i nacjonalizmu.dr hab. Krzysztof Jaskułowski, prof. SWPSTomasz Rawski – socjolog, bałkanista, adiunkt w Instytucie Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, stypendysta m.in. University College London, University of Uppsala i University of Sarajevo. Zajmuje się problematyką nacjonalizmu, polityki symbolicznej, polityki pamięci oraz budowania państw i narodów w Europie Wschodniej. Zobacz więcej na: http://trawski.net.

“Slavonia, three times you burned…” District Podravska Slatina in the Second World War 1941–1945

“Slavonijo, triput si gorila...” Kotar Podravska Slatina u Drugom svetskom ratu 1941–1945.

Author(s): Milan Radanović / Language(s): Serbian

Keywords: Slavonia; district Podravska Slatina; Brđanska; The Second World War; 1941-1945; ethnic groups; Serbs; Croats;

Knjiga koja je pred čitaocima obuhvata istoriju slatinske Podravine i Brđanske tokom Drugog svetskog rata. Reč je o teritoriji koje je uoči i tokom rata obuhvatalo područje kotara Podravska Slatina, a nakon rata područje istoimene općine. Granice predratnog i ratnog kotara Podravska Slatina i posleratne općine Podravska Slatina nisu u potpunosti podudarne. Kotar je obuhvatao i pojedina sela koja su nakon rata postala deo općine Orahovica, a pre rata su bila deo seoskih općina Slatinski Drenovac i Nova Bukovica u sastavu kotara Podravska Slatina (Slatinski Drenovac, Prekoračani, Pušina, Krasković, Humljani, Krajna, Četekovac, Čojlug, Mikleuš). S druge strane, nakon rata u sastav općine Podravska Slatina uvršteno je područje nekadašnje seoske općine Čađavica koja je pre rata bila u sastavu kotara Donji Miholjac (Čađavica, Čađavički Lug, Ilmin Dvor). Sva ostala naselja, njih oko 60, koja su pre i tokom rata bila u sastavu kotara, nakon rata našla su se u sastavu općine Podravska Slatina. Knjiga obuhvata događaje koji su se odigrali od 1941. do 1945. na širem području slatinske Podravine i Brđanske, uključujući ne samo delove kotara Podravska Slatina kasnije pripojene općini Orahovica i delove kotara Donji Miholjac kasnije pripojene općini Podravska Slatina, već i rubna područja kotara Virovitica, Daruvar, Našice, Donji Miholjac i Slavonska Požega koja se naslanjaju na slatinsko-voćinski kraj. [...]

Kosova: Separate Worlds. Reflections and Analyses 1998

Kosova: Separate Worlds. Reflections and Analyses 1998

Author(s): Shkëlzen Maliqi / Language(s): English

Keywords: Kosovo 1990s; Arts in Kosova; Kosovo conflict; Yugoslav wars;

Published in 1998 by Dukagjini Publishing House (Prishtina) // "I had not planned to write this book. It gathers a number of articles that deal with current (1998!) aspects of the problem of Kosova and the Balkan crisis in general. The selection of articles is perhaps not as representative as it could have been; out of hundreds that I have published since the mid- 1980s to today, included in this book are only those that were translated into English. Still, I hope that this selection of articles will be useful to specialists dealing with the Balkan crisis and the Albanian question, as well as to journalists and those interested in learning more about the essence of the processes underway. // For those with a wider interest, I have included two texts that deal with Kosova's art scene in the 1990's as well as an interview containing autobiographical references and information in which internal political and spiritual currents among Kosova Albanians overlap." (Shkelzen Maliqi)

A book about love

Knjiga o ljubavi

Author(s): Ibrahim Čikić / Language(s): Bosnian

Keywords: Montenegro; war; 90s; Bosniaks; muslims; crimes; civil society; democracy;

Pred nama je Knjiga o ljubavi. Knjiga i svjedočanstvo o stradanju, još jedna u nizu istorijskih lekcija koja opominje, a takvih u našoj prošlosti stanuje već previše. Ibrahim Čikić kroz svoje tekstove provlači istorijske paralele, veže pojedinačne sudbine sa sudbinom Bošnjačkog naroda, afirmiše nacionalno, Bošnjačko, ali uz vapaj za poštovanjem ljudskih prava i sloboda i priznanje njihove univerzalnosti. Stradanje Bošnjaka Ibrahim Čikić smješta u nekoliko kontekstualnih pravaca. Prvi je brutalnost zločina izvršenog nad Bošnjacima-Muslimanima iz Crne Gore ili na prostoru Crne Gore. Od Šehovića do Štrbaca, Ibrahim Čikić prati krvavi voz pružajući otpor zaboravu. Ibrahim je glas mučenika koji traži neumorno pravdu, koji jasno slika svoje mučitelje u liku najviših crnogorskih zvaničnika od kojih su neki i danas na vlasti ili bliski strukturama vlasti. Drugi je odnos prema kulturnom, vjerskom i imovinskom naslijeđu Bošnjaka, nadograđen inicijativom da se spomen-obilježja o stradanju Bošnjaka postave na mjestima koja u jednom simbolišu sve zločine prema ovom narodu. On slika karakter nekoliko različitih vlasti i vladara i njihove metode zatiranja kulturnog, vjerskog i imovinskog nasljeđa Bošnjaka. Zato drži bitnim da se spomenici postave na mjesta koja imaju punu simboliku i koja pozivaju na kajanje. Treći je odnos prema karakteru države Crne Gore, gdje Ibrahim Čikić osnov za zaštitu i razvoj Bošnjaka-Muslimana vidi u regionalizaciji, što je velika tema o kojoj se mora ozbiljno i odgovorno voditi društveni dijalog. Postavlja se pitanje od sudbinske važnosti za Crnu Goru: da li ona kao građanska država daje potrebne odgovore i odražava interese naroda koji je čine? Centar za građansko obrazovanje (CGO) podrškom i konceptom izdavaštva i ovaj put želi dati doprinos unaprijeđenju društvenog dijaloga, tako neophodnog za prevazilaženje razlika, unaprijeđenje demokratskih mehanizama i održivost zajednice. CGO svoju misiju afirmacije građanskog društva vidi kao potrebu da javnost uvijek bude prisutna, upoznata, da ima priliku dati svoj sud. Diskriminacija je i praviti se gluv i slijep pred temama koje opominju, pate, imaju svoj legitimitet. Diskriminacija je i stvarati društveni kontekst u kojem se ne može čuti druga strana. Pred ogledalo javnosti mora se staviti zajednica u cjelini, jer vjerujemo da se samo na taj način može i konstituisati istinsko građansko društvo.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON STATEHOOD OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 1943-2019

BIBLIOGRAFIJA RADOVA O DRŽAVNOSTI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE 1943-2019.

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian

Keywords: Bosnia; BiH; statehood; 20th century; 21st century; ZAVNOBIH; bibliography;

Dvadeset petog novembra 2018. godine navršilo se 75 godina od kada je u Mrkonjić Gradu održano I zasjedanje ZAVNOBiH-a. Tada je, kako je zabilježio hroničar, “u jeku krvavih bitaka od Soče do Đevđelije, Bosna i Hercegovina, u Mrkonjić Gradu, nekoliko desetina kilometara od njemačkog garnizona u Banja Luci, ostvarivala san svojih najboljih sinova, ona je birala svoje zemaljsko vijeće. U toj historijskoj noći, sabrali su se na svoju prvu skupštinu najbolji Srbi, najbolji Hrvati, najbolji Muslimani od ravne Posavine do hercegovačkog krša, od drinskih prosjelina do masiva Dinare i bratimeći se ispod slika Tita, Staljina, Čerčila i Ruzvelta kuju sirotici kletoj svijetlu budućnost.” Uzimajući u obzir značaj koji je imalo prvo zasjedanje ZAVNOBiH-a za izgradnju državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, pristupilo se namjeri da se na osnovu dostupnih izvora napravi baza podataka o državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine da bi se budućim istraživačima omogućilo kompleksnije sagledavanje te teme. Nekoliko je faktora opredijelilo pristup temi, a glavni je bio dostupnost građe. Natpisi koji se odnose na državnost Bosne i Hercegovine u velikoj su se mjeri umnožili nakon 1969. godine, a manifestacije su od tada obilježavane širom Bosne i Hercegovine. Pokrajinski komitet KPJ za Bosnu u Hercegovinu sredinom augusta 1943. godine donio je odluku o pokretanju lista “Oslobođenje”, koji je uprkos brojnim nedostacima omogućio širenje informacija o antifašističkoj borbi u Bosni i Hercegovini i Jugoslaviji. Od 868 članaka objavljenih u ratnom “Oslobođenju”, 255 članaka imalo je politički karakter, 217 članaka odnosilo se na borbena djelovanja jedinica NOVJ i vojnih snaga članica antifašističke koalicije, 94 na kulturno-prosvjetne prilike na oslobođenoj teritoriji i u partizanskim jedinicama, 69 na opis likova partizanskih boraca, 68 na privredne prilike u Bosni i Hercegovini, 57 na djelatnosti Narodnooslobodilačkog fronta, 50 na djelatnosti organa narodne vlasti… List “Oslobođenje” bio je dosljedan borac za društveni napredak, izgradnju socijalističkog društva, učvršćenje bratstva i jedinstva među jugoslavenskim narodima i narodnostima, a svojim natpisima je dosljedno čuvao tekovine revolucije. U oblasti nauke, prosvjete i kulture Bosna i Hercegovina je u poslijeratnom periodu ostvarila značajan napredak. “Oslobođenje” je svakodnevno donosilo natpise o svim značajnijim kulturnim manifestacijama u Bosni i Hercegovini. Za proučavanje historije socijalističkog razvoja Bosne i Hercegovine značajnu ulogu imali su i članci o značajnim pitanjima. “Oslobođenje”, kao kreativni elemenat, ali i refleks javnog mijenja, predstavljalo je vrijedan historijski izvor na osnovu kojeg je bilo moguće sagledati društveno-političke i ekonomske prilike u Bosni i Hercegovini u periodu socijalističke izgradnje. Poruke ZAVNOBiH-a postale su temeljna odrednica svih poslijeratnih ustava u Bosni i Hercegovini. Knjiga je koncipirana iz četiri cjeline. U prvoj je dat popis izvora i literature koji se odnosi na period 1945-2018. godine. Arhivska građa vojnih jedinica, društveno-političkih organizacija i organa narodne i vojne uprave najvećim je dijelom sačuvana i publicirana u većem broju knjiga – zbornicima dokumenata i podataka o narodnooslobodilačkom ratu, a ta je tema razmatrana i u drugim publikacijama. U drugoj cjelini dat je spisak članaka objavljenih u ratnom izdanju “Oslobođenja” u periodu od 1943. do sredine 1945. godine. Tadašnja njegova izdanja, uprkos brojnim nedostacima, predstavljala su značajnu pojavu za širenje informacija o antifašističkoj borbi u Bosni i Hercegovini. U trećoj cjelini data je bibliografija radova objavljenih u “Oslobođenju” u periodu od 1945. do 1992. godine. Nakon Drugog svjetskog rata uloga “Oslobođenja” u velikoj se mjeri izmijenila, pa je ono postalo značajan instrument demokratskog javnog života i mišljenja, donoseći informacije o svim značajnijim društveno-političkim i ekonomskim zbivanjima u zemlji i svijetu, predstavljajući snažno sredstvo propagande socijalističkih ideja i odgoja širokih društvenih slojeva u socijalističkom duhu i tumača ideologije i političke linije KPJ, odnosno SKJ. U period između 1945. i 1992. godine, kada se Bosna i Hercegovina nalazila u okviru SFRJ, mogli su se razlikovati stavovi prema ZAVNOBiH-u i državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. Zahvaljujući utjecaju mlađih političara u Bosni i Hercegovini, povodom obilježavanja 25. godišnjice Prvog zasjedanja ZAVNOBiH-a donesena je odluka da se 25. novembar 1969. godine obilježi kao Dan državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. Od tada se širom Bosne i Hercegovine taj dan proslavljao brojnim manifestacijama. U četvrtoj cjelini bibliografije nalazi se popis novinskih članaka objavljenih u periodu od 1992. do 2018. godine. Pored podsjećanja na proces izgradnje državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, posebna pažnja posvećena je aktuelnom odnosu prema tekovinama Narodnooslobodilačkog rata, odnosu prema ZAVNOBiH-u u periodu socijalizma, ali i osporavanju i negiranju svih povijesnih obilježja bosanskohercegovačkog društva. Dan državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine sada se obilježava samo u jednom dijelu zemlje – u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine, dok je u Republici Srpskoj prisutna namjera da se sva njegova obilježja iz prethodnog vremena u potpunosti izbrišu iz memorije. Otkako je u procesu disolucije Jugoslavije nacionalizam postao dominantna ideologija u Bosni i Hercegovini, počelo je negiranje njenog povijesnog bića, kao i univerzalnih principa ZAVNOBiH-a. Značajnu pomoć u kompletiranju uvida u natpise u štampi predstavljala je baza podataka za period od 2003. do 2018. godine, koju je objavio Infobiro-Medija centar iz Sarajeva, ali je trebalo izvršiti selekciju predstavljenih članaka i dopuniti postojeći popis. Iako je bibliografija rađena po drugim metodološkim principima, ona ipak omogućava puni uvid u navedene novinske članke. Kao prilog i doprinos vizuelnom sagledavanju razmatrane teme, pod naslovom “Tri zasjedanja ZAVNOBiH-a”, priložene su fotografije koje se nalaze u Historijskom muzeju u Sarajevu, kao i fotografije objavljene u knjizi Monografija Mrkonjić Grada, štampanoj povodom obilježavanja 30. godišnjice ZAVNOBiH-a 1973. godine. Na kraju, dat je registar imena autora knjiga i članaka objavljenih u publikacijama, kao i imena autora novinskih članaka. Ovaj prilog posvećen obilježavanju 75. godišnjice ZAVNOBiH-a potvrda je da ZAVNOBiH živi i da će njegovo povijesno biće i dalje biti prisutno u našoj stvarnosti. Kao važan elemenat u pitanju čuvanja tekovina NOR-a naredni zadatak će biti obilježavanje 80. godišnjice ZAVNOBiH-a, a za to će biti potrebno omogućiti kompleksniji pristup štampi i literaturi.