This article examines the reception of Marie Curie and her scientific work in Serbian-language periodicals from the early twentieth century to the late 1930s. It traces how knowledge about radioactivity, radium, and the Curies’ discoveries was disseminated in the Serbian public sphere through translations, popular science texts, and articles by university professors and public intellectuals. The study shows that Marie Curie was consistently represented as a pioneering scientist, with particular emphasis on her Nobel Prizes, her experimental work, and the perceived transformative impact of radioactivity on modern physics and chemistry. At the same time, her public image was shaped by intersecting discourses of gender, nationality, and scientific authority, in which she was alternately framed as a “Slavic” figure, a model of female achievement, and an exceptional case within a male-dominated scientific world. The article further analyses the absence of systematic misogynistic reinterpretations of her work in Serbian sources, contrasting this with broader European patterns such as the Matilda effect. It argues that Serbian periodical discourse functioned as a space in which scientific knowledge and gendered meanings were jointly constructed, negotiated, and transformed.
Central and Eastern Europe underwent a deep-rooted transformation in the years following World War I. The German Empire became a republic, Tsarist Russia sank into a bloody civil war, while the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire became fragmented. It was obvious throughout the region that political extremism combined with violence moved into the forefront. This study focuses on the events unfolding in Hungary at that time. It examines the extent to which the National Army and the so-called officers’ detachments contributed to the rise of Admiral Miklós Horthy during the Civil War. Their activities were also intertwined with the period of the White Terror that followed the short-lived Soviet Republic, or with the election of Horthy as Governor of Hungary. However, amid consolidating conditions, Horthy, who had just been elected Governor, also became increasingly embarrassed by the excesses committed by military personnel.
U radu kritički rekonstruišemo okolnosti nastanka i različite verzije i prevode važnog istoriografskog izvora vezanog za Sarajevski atentat. Reč je o brošuri „Princip o sebi” koja je 1926. godine simultano objavljena u Zagrebu, Beogradu i Beču, a donosila je raščitani stenogram razgovora koje je bečki psihijatar Martin Papenhajm vodio sa Gavrilom Principom 1916. godine u Terezinu. Oslanjajući se na nove arhivske i periodičke izvore, razmatramo pitanje geneze i različitih konteksta u kojima se ovaj spis pojavljivao od 1919. sve do komemorativne 2014. godine. Posebna pažnja posvećena je ulozi koju su u plasmanu ovog dokumenta imali Martin Papenhajm, Ratko Parežanin i Hamilton Fiš Armstrong. Zaključci se tiču mogućnosti pouzdane autentifikacije ovog dokumenta kao i njegovog povezivanja sa polemikama vezanim za pitanje tzv. ratne krivice sredinom dvadesetih godina 20. veka.
After the establishment of the Yugoslav state, gymnasts organised before WWI in Sokol and Orel societies, renewed and consolidated their activities, organised themselves at the state level, and joined international organisations. However, they were not united under a single organisation dedicated to their particular discipline, such as sports. By the end of the first decade of the Yugoslav state, their activities were characterised by “the 6 January Dictatorship” that King Alexander imposed on 6 January 1929 amid a tense internal political situation in the second half of 1928. The State Protection Act banned and dissolved political parties with a religious or “tribal” character. Various societies, including gymnastic ones, whose activities were indirectly linked to the political camps, also came under scrutiny. Consequently, the King and the Government adopted an act establishing the new and unified gymnastic organisation, the Sokol of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was intended to represent a fresh civil-society force that promoted and encouraged the spirit of Yugoslavism. The act fundamentally interfered with the organisational structure of gymnastics, without affecting the sports sector. In the present article, we will, based on available sources, shed light on the formation of the new single all-state gymnastics organisation, which significantly changed the situation in gymnastics, with its programmatic orientation rooted in Yugoslav Sokolism and the Yugoslav Sokol.
O Službi za poslove bezbednosti (SPB) i poslovima koje je obavljala u naučnoj i stručnoj javnosti zna se veoma malo. Stvorena je 1984. godine, nakon opšte reorganizacije, u tadašnjem Saveznom sekretarijatu za inostrane poslove Socijalističke Federativne Republike Jugoslavije (SSIP SFRJ). Objedinjavanjem Službe samozaštite i Službe za fizičko-tehničko obezbeđenje, formirana je Služba za poslove bezbednosti (SPB) kao integralni deo tog sekretarijata. Glavni zadatak nove službe bio je da organizuje i sprovodi bezbednosnu zaštitu kroz postojeće organizacione strukture i redovne delatnosti SSIP-a i diplomatsko-konzularnih predstavništava (DKP) na principima društvene samozaštite. U ovom radu, na osnovu dostupne građe i poverljivih dokumenata, analiziraćemo razvojni put ove resorne kontraobaveštajne službe, čiji je osnovni zadatak bio bezbednosna zaštita SSIP-a i DKP-а u inostranstvu, kao i lica zaposlenih u njima.
