Sabine Rutar

Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European History, Regensburg

In this chapter, the author analyzes property in the film Piran – Pirano (Slovenia, 2010), directed by Goran Vojnović. The film is set in the Istrian town of Piran (It. Pirano) in today’s Slovenia. Its property metaphors encapsulate the historical experience of individuals who lived through the war’s aftermath, through displacement and the rifts be...

This book’s authors explore the history of what today is Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. Their in-depth and multidimensional assessments reveal the Second World War’s dramatic damage on the ethnic, sociocultural, and material fabric of communities a...

“Barysz was such a vibrant, such a lively and companionable town,” said 92-year-old Pole Władysław Kowcz with regret while being interviewed in his home in Lower Silesia in Poland in 2020. His Ukrainian peer Mariia Kliotsko, who still lives in Barysh, echoed him: “We had everything in this town before the war.” Kowcz left Barysz in 1945, and Kliots...

The authors analyze politics and protest in Yugoslavia vis-à-vis the United States waging war in Vietnam. In managing its policies regarding the Vietnam War, the Yugoslav government sought room for manoeuvre between its commitments to each superpower and to its allies in the non-aligned movement, including the latter’s aim to promote peaceful coexi...

In this scholarly panel, Guido Franzinetti, John Breuilly, Béatrice von Hirschhausen, and Sabine Rutar discuss Diana Mishkova's monograph Beyond Balkanism. The Scholarly Politics of Region Making, published in the Routledge Borderland Studies series (2018; paperback edition 2020). The panel focuses, from various angles, precisely on how 'region mak...

Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a diminished Ottoman Empire—and subsequently against one another–they anticipated many of the horror...

Introducing this special issue on historiographies and debates on the Second World War in Southeastern Europe, the author reflects on the conditionalities of a better balancing of research agendas in terms of the interdependencies between local dynamics and wider scales—be they the regional, national and transnational, or global dimensions of the w...

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balkans, with consequences that are still felt today....

The years 2012–13 marked the centennial of the Balkan Wars, which preceded the First World War and reshaped the map of Southeastern Europe. The states existing today in the area can hardly offer a satisfactory framework for exploring the history of the two Balkan Wars, which exerted a more profound impact on the region than even the Great War. And...

The port of Koper (It. Capodistria) in the Slovenian part of the Istrian peninsula was built in the second half of the 1950s as a socialist modernization project. In 1970, it witnessed the only violently escalating dockers’ unrest in its socialist history. Using the personal archive of Danilo Petrinja, the port's second director, which has been pre...

The state of the art of research on the National Socialist employment of labour in Yugoslavia can be summed up as follows: the whole of southeast Europe represents a major gap when it comes to researching forced labour in the occupied territories.1 Where the residents of Yugoslavia are mentioned in the context of forced labour within the Reich, thi...

The article outlines research perspectives in the realm of labor history, a field that has lain idle for much of the past two decades. It sketches out potentials for methodological innovation, taking the northeastern Adriatic, and specifically the harbor and port cities of Trieste, Monfalcone, Koper, and Rijeka, as a case in point. The author point...

The article deals with the role of the railway in the economic exploitation of Slovenia during the Second World War. It focusses on presenting some yet unresolved research questions with regard to this matter. The hypothesis put forth is that, given that the maintenance of the railway had a very high priority within the politics of the German and I...

This article provides a general overview of research on, and the construction of, the memory of World War II in socialist Yugoslavia and its successor states, focusing on Slovenia, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the intent of placing this topic in the general framework of oral history and memory research. At the center of attention is the que...

The article focusses on methodological tools for investigating social practice in totalitarian societies. It referes to the work of Hannah Arendt, Pierre Bourdieu, Imanuel Geiss, Reinhart Koselleck, Alf Lüdtke, and others. Its reflections are mostly illustrated by examples taken from the author's research on work relationships in Yugoslav mining in...

This article provides a general overview of research on, and the construction of, the memory of World War II in socialist Yugoslavia and its successor states, focusing on Slovenia, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the intent of placing this topic in the general framework of oral history and memory research. At the center of attention is the que...

This article analyzes the work relations and the composition of the work force in the Bor copper mine in German-occupied Serbia (1941-1944). The exploitation of that mine was one of the most important projects for the German war economy in Southeastern Europe. The Serbian collaboration government introduced several decrees regulating the labor mark...

AUSZUG Die Verfasserin analysiert die Artikulation nationaler Identitäten im italienisch- sprachigen und slowenischsprachigen Milieu der sozialdemokratischen Kulturbewe- gung in Triest vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Folgende Aspekte werden thematisiert: italienische und slowenische Definitionen von Nation; internationalistische sozial- demokratische Rhe...