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Censorship in Yugoslavia Between 1945 and 1952. Halfway Between Stalin and West PECOB’S PAPERS ISSN: 2038-632X SERIES Censorship in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1952. Halfway between Stalin and West Deniver Vukelić Ph.D. candidate in Croatian Culture Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb JANUARYver.1.0 | Timestamp:2012 201201271219| #19 19www.pecob.eu PECOB’s Scientific Board About PECOB’s people is an ininterdisciplinaryterdiscirdisciplinplinararyy boboardarddofd of ddirectors,irector responsible for reviewing proposals and graphic design: mdelgatto.com accepting international high quality scien- Ƥ of the Europe and the Balkans Interna- tional Network and the Association of Ital- ian Slavists. Ƥ blind review process will be published in the portal. Ƥ - tors are: Ȉ ȋ Ȍ Ȉ ȋ Ȍ Ȉ ȋ Ȍ Ȉ ȋ Ȍ PECOB’s Editorial Staff selectssellectts andand bbrbringsiinggs ttogetheroggetthher tthehe ththinkinginkin of distinguished scholars, scholars experts, experts rre- Ǧǡ- ǡ Ƥ Ǥ Ms Aurora Domeniconi ơǤ ǡ - cations concerning conferences and events, courses, academic calls and contents for the ǡ Ƥ Ƥ Library. [email protected] Mr Michele Tempera Ǥ concerning the economic and business section. [email protected] Mr Massimiliano Del Gatto Ǥ ǡ- correct functioning, as well as for technical details and requirements of contributions. [email protected]@unibo.it PECOB’s Scientific Board is an ininterdisciplinaryterdiscirdisciplinplinararyy boboardarddofd of ddirectors,irector responsible for reviewing proposals and graphic design: mdelgatto.com accepting international high quality scien- Ƥ of the Europe and the Balkans Interna- tional Network and the Association of Ital- ian Slavists. Ƥ blind review process will be published in the portal. Ƥ - tors are: Ȉ ȋ Ȍ Censorship in Yugoslavia between Ȉ ȋ Ȍ Ȉ ȋ Ȍ 1945 and 1952. Halfway between Ȉ ȋ Ȍ Stalin and West PECOB’s Editorial Staff selectssellectts andand bbrbringsiinggs ttogetheroggetthher tthehe ththinkinginkin of distinguished scholars, scholars experts, experts rre- Ǧǡ- ǡ Ƥ Ǥ Ms Aurora Domeniconi Deniver Vukelić ơǤ ǡ - cations concerning conferences and events, courses, academic calls and contents for the Ph.D. candidate in Croatian Culture Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb ǡ Ƥ Ƥ Library. [email protected] Mr Michele Tempera Ǥ concerning the economic and business section. [email protected] Mr Massimiliano Del Gatto Ǥ ǡ- correct functioning, as well as for technical details and requirements of contributions. [email protected]@unibo.it 5 Table of contents About PECOB’s people ....................................................................................................................2 Abstract .................................................................................................................................................7 Keywords ..............................................................................................................................................7 1. Introduction.................................................................................................................................9 1.1. Guidelines ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9 1.2. Censorship concepts .....................................................................................................................................................10 1.3. Sources, literature and methodology ....................................................................................................................12 2. Agitprop .....................................................................................................................................13 3. Yugoslav press laws and the internal referrals in 1945 – 1948 .........................16 4. The situation in Croatia at the very end and after the Second World War ....18 4.1. State Commission for establishing the crimes of the occupying forces and their supporters (Ze- maljska komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača) and the Survey Com- mittee for investigation of the crime of cultural cooperation with the enemy (Anketna komisija za utvrđivanje zločina kulturnom suradnjom s neprijateljem).................................................................19 4.2. Confrontation with journalists of Independent state of Croatia ...............................................................20 4.3. The prohibition of books and/or writers and the condition in bookstores and libraries ..............24 4.4. Examples of censorship of music and film ..........................................................................................................34 5. The situation in Serbia .........................................................................................................35 6. The cultural relationship with the Soviet Union before and after 1948 ........39 7. Conclusion .................................................................................................................................41 8. Sources and literature ..........................................................................................................43 8.1. Sources ...............................................................................................................................................................................43 8.2. Literature ..........................................................................................................................................................................43 9. Appendix ....................................................................................................................................45 9.1. List of NDH journalist who were forever banned to practice writing, publishing and other journalist work ...............................................................................................................................................................45 9.1. List of “Books that we should immediately prohibit and prevent their further circulation” (“Knji- ge koje treba hitno zabraniti i onemogućiti njihovo dalje širenje”) .......................................................48 ...............................................................................................................................53 Creative Commons License ........................................................................................................54 AboutDeniver PECOB Vukelić ...................................................................................................................................55 PECOB calls for papers! ...............................................................................................................56 | JANUARY 2012 | #19 | Censorship in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1952. Halfway between Stalin and West | by Deniver Vukelić Deniver | by and West Stalin between 1945 and 1952. Halfway between in Yugoslavia 2012 | #19 Censorship | JANUARY PECOB’s Papers Series Papers PECOB’s 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) | | (CC BY-NC-ND 7 Abstract This research is based on the fundaments of somewhat nonsystematic histo- rical and culturological investigation of censorship as an important factor in the shaping of cultural identity of people of former Yugoslavia. It starts from the past - - studies conducted in the fields of book history, archivistics and journalism. It ta yearkes Croatia of IB resolution and Serbia in for1948 referent until 1952countries and slowlyas base coming fields forout explaining from so called cen Agitpropsorship methodologies cultural period in of the Yugoslavia. period of Yugoslav WWII aftermath, through the hadThe lack gap of willwhich and is expertiseto be filled to is have one witha better objective insight approach in methodology to both sides, of cultu the- winning and the losing side in the WWII, especially because the winning side theral inheritanceway of how which winner’s it finds, propaganda it destroys and or winner’s forbids itsauthorities artifacts, deal from with artwork propa to- everyday specimens of low culture. Also, in this work there is a closer insight to- ganda of the enemy, including absolute censorship, destruction, sometimes lite- ral and complete, as damnatio memoriae of everything what previous period was whichand had in asthis its work cultural was attributes.tried to be Inrecognized that way andthere analyzed. can be shaped a new, artifi cial cultural identity, identified as a Stalinist and totalitarian model of that time Keywords - Yugoslavia, Croatia, Serbia, censorship, Stalinism, Agitprop, propaganda ap paratus of NDH, libraries, forbidden books, forbidden magazines, culture, press workers censorship, 1948, Cominform and Yugoslavia Vukelić Deniver | by and West Stalin between 1945 and 1952. Halfway between in Yugoslavia 2012 | #19 Censorship | JANUARY PECOB’s Papers Series Papers PECOB’s 8 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) | | (CC BY-NC-ND 9 1. Introduction 1.1. Guidelines Uz Tita i Staljina, dva junačka sina, nas neće ni pakao smest. (Together with Tito and Stalin, two heroic sons, not even Hell shall stop us. – original version) Uz maršala Tita, junačkoga sina, nas neće ni pakao smest. (Together with Marshall Tito, the heroic
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