Access
Use
Acquisition Information
Preferred Citation
Biographical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Related Materials
Title: Wayne S. Vucinich collection
Date (inclusive): 1881-1994
Collection Number: 80068
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English, German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Bulgarian
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection contains reports, minutes, dispatches, and translations of and extracts from dispatches, relating to conditions
in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and other areas of the Balkans and Eastern Europe before and during World War II, and especially
to World War II resistance movements. Issuing agencies include the United States Office of Strategic Services Research and
Analysis Branch, the United States Department of State, and Allied occupation authorities in Bulgaria.
Creator:
United States. Department of State
source:
Vucinich, Wayne S.
Creator:
United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wayne S. Vucinich Collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1913 |
Born in Butte, Montana |
1918-1928 |
After his parents' death, Vucinich lived in his parents' village of Orah, near Bileće, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
1929 |
Returned to America to live with his godfather's family in Wilmington, California |
1936 |
BA, University of California Berkeley, History and Slavic language |
1936-1937 |
MA, University of California Berkeley, dissertation on Serbian foreign policy 1903-1909 |
1937-1938 |
Doctoral research at the Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia |
1939 |
Returned to UC Berkeley after the Munich crisis interrupted his research; appointed teaching assistant in the Department of
History
|
1941 |
PhD, University of California Berkeley, dissertation on Serbian political and diplomatic history in the decade preceeding
World War I
|
1942 |
Married Sara 'Sally'; joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Research and Analysis Branch |
1943 |
Sent to OSS headquarters in Bari, Italy; assigned to research the Balkans |
1944 |
Served as a liaison officer, interpreter, and Balkan expert attached to the Allied Control Council in Sofia, Bulgaria |
1945-1946 |
Continued work on Balkan affairs for the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC |
1946 |
Instructor, Western civilization and East European history at Stanford University |
1950 |
Cleared and confirmed as a "Loyal American" at a hearing before the Naval Security Board |
1954 |
Author,
Serbia between East and West: The Events of 1903-1908, Stanford University Press
|
1955 |
Received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer prize |
1956 |
Promoted to full professor at Stanford University |
1972-1985 |
Named director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Stanford University |
1974-1977 |
Curator of the Russian and East European Collection at the Hoover Institution |
1977 |
Appointed the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford, a chair established for him |
1978 |
Formally retired |
1981-1982 |
Served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, which established the Vucinich Book
Prize in his honor in 1982
|
2005 |
Died in Menlo Park, California |
Sources:
Vucinich, Wayne S.,
Memories of My Childhood in Yugoslavia, edited by Larry Wolff, The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, Inc., Palo Alto, California, 2007
Wayne S. Vucinich (1913-2005)- A professor between Herzegovina and California by Ivo Banac, Published in Dani (Sarajevo), 29 April 2005
Wayne S. Vucinich, Father of East European Studies, Died at 91. http://www.i-newswire.com/wayne-s-vucinich-father-of-east/a17703
Memorial Resolution, Wayne S. Vucinich. http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/memorial_resolutions/Vucinich_Wayne_SenD6020.pdf
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection is comprised of reports, minutes, telegrams, notes, translations of and extracts from dispatches relating to
the Austrian administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina prior World War I, and World War II in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, particularly
resistance movements in Yugoslavia and the exiled Yugoslav government.
The
Bosnia-Herzegovina materials provide records of the Austrian administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the crisis in 1881-1882, and political
tensions in 1913-1914.
The
World War II in Yugoslavia files provide documentation on the politics of the Royal Yugoslav government in exile and its active role in the Yugoslav
resistance movement and the formation of a new Yugoslavia, as well as Allied countries' diplomatic activities during wartime
The
United States Department of State situation reports summarize information concerning domestic political and economic developments and international affairs in the Balkans and
Central and Eastern Europe during and after World War II.
The
Bulgaria materials provide detailed information on Bulgarian political life and Bulgarian government between 1944 and 1946 in reports from the
United States Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis Branch, the United States Department of State, and Allied
occupation authorities in Bulgaria.
The
Balkans in the 1990s materials document the international community's concerns on issues during the 1990s surrounding the referendum on independence in
Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, the events in Dr. Mirtin Horvat Hospital, Rovinj, and the leadership of the Serbian Orthodox church
in Serbia.
Related Materials
Wayne S. Vucinich collection, 1926-1995, Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Bulgaria
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements
World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia -- History -- Axis occupation, 1941-1945
Secret service -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Eastern
World War, 1939-1945 -- Balkan Peninsula
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service
Yugoslavia -- History
Vucinich, Wayne S.