Bonus: History of Yugoslavia 101
Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein gives a short lecture on Yugoslavia's history in an attempt to answer the question, "Was Yugoslavia good or bad for its peoples?" The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast e...
20 Dec 202126min
Yugoslav Cuisine
There was Yugoslav cuisine the same way there is European cuisine. At best, Yugoslav cuisine was an amalgam of cuisines of Yugoslavia’s constituent peoples, all of which can, in turn, be easily subsum...
6 Dec 20211h 4min
The Specter of Dayton
Yugoslavia continues to disintegrate. There’s Kosovo, there’s lingering territorial and financial disputes among successor countries...and there’s Republika Srpska. Last month, Milorad Dodik, the Serb...
22 Nov 20211h 4min
Two Schools Under One Roof
In 2016, a cantonal government decided that, in one of the secondary schools in Jajce, which was following a Croatian curriculum for all the students, a separate school would be established on the pre...
8 Nov 202146min
Secondhand Tito
A sea of ink has been spilled documenting the life and times of Josip Broz Tito. But Tito's biographies place his life against that of Yugoslavia, so that reading a biography of Tito means reading the...
25 Okt 202139min
Karma Pavilions
Yugoslavia lives. It lives, among other things, in the architecture and infrastructure built during its existence. Buildings, roads, and monuments from the Yugoslav era keep that country and the memor...
11 Okt 202154min
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon at 80
Eighty years since its publication, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia remains the most authoritative (and longest) book of travel writing on that former country. ...
20 Sep 20211h 31min
Robert D. Kaplan: The Ghosts of Balkan Ghosts
Few travel books have had as big a real-world impact as Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan. Published in 1993, this account of Kaplan’s travels through Croatia, Kosovo, Macedoni...
6 Sep 202142min
