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Register of the Wayne S. Vucinich Collection
Hoover Institution Archives
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Collection Summary
Title: Wayne S. Vucinich Collection
Dates: 1881-1994
Collection Number: 80068
Collector: Vucinich, Wayne S.
Collection Size:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English,
Serbo-Croatian,
Slovenian,
Bulgarian, and
German
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wayne S. Vucinich Collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1980.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Related Materials
Wayne S. Vucinich collection, 1926-1995, Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Secret service--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Balkan Peninsula.
World War, 1939-1945--Europe, Eastern.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
World War, 1939-1945--Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
Yugoslavia--History.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1903-1908.
World War, 1939-1945--Bulgaria.
United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch.
United States. Dept. of State.
Box: 1
Bosnia-Herzegovina materials,
1881-1914
Scope and Content Note
Includes reports and government documents relating to political tensions during the Austrian administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Arrangement
Arranged by topic
Box/Folder: 1 : 1
Austrian administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina documents,
1881-1882
Box/Folder: 1 : 1
Austria-Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina reports on tensions,
1913-1914
Box: 1-2
Yugoslavia in World War II files,
1940-1947
Scope and Content Note
Consists of reports, notes, and correspondence documenting political situations, resistance movements, partisans, Tito, and
Draža Mihailović.
Arrangement
Arranged by subject
Box/Folder: 1 : 3
Communist and Yugoslav government,
1941-1942
Scope and Content Note
Includes reports on Yugoslav resistance and developments
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
General Draža Miahilović's situation reports to the Yugoslav prime minister,
1942
Box/Folder: 1 : 5
General Miahilović's contacts in London and Cairo,
1942
Box/Folder: 1 : 6
General Miahilović's revolutionary movement, Belgrade,
1943
Box/Folder: 1 : 7
John Biddle notes on Yugoslavia and General Miahilović,
1943
Box/Folder: 1 : 8
Sava Kosanović telegrams reporting on Yugoslav politics,
1941-1943
Box/Folder: 1 : 9
Economic conditions in Yugoslavia,
1943
Box/Folder: 1 : 10-12
Tito and the resistance movement,
1944
Box/Folder: 1 : 13
American independent military mission to Marshal Tito,
1944
Box/Folder: 1 : 14
Memorandum on policy towards Yugoslavia,
1944
Scope and Content Note
Includes information on resistance movements
Box/Folder: 1 : 15
Siniša Pazarec correspondence,
1945
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Konstantin Fotich and Anić Srećko
Box/Folder: 2 : 1
Prince Paul correspondence,
1940-1943
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Dimitrije Ljotić, Steed Green, Watson Wickham, and Seton Watson
Box/Folder: 2 : 2
Proposal on the Greek-Yugoslav union and Balkan union,
1943
Box/Folder: 2 : 3
Bailey report on Peter II, King of Yugoslavia's visit to the Mediterranean,
1944
Box/Folder: 2 : 4
"Gray Book" on the independent Croatian state and guerrilla movements in Croatia,
1941-1942
Box/Folder: 2 : 5-7
Slovenia and Yugoslavia situation reports,
1942-1943
Box/Folder: 2 : 8
Yugoslav prisoners in camps in Italy,
1943
Box/Folder: 2 : 9
Yugoslav and U.S. cooperative mission for the rescue of U.S. aviators,
1944
Box: 2-3
United States Department of State situation reports,
1942-1946
Scope and Content Note
Contains reports, press releases, and statements.
Arrangement
Arranged in three groups: regional reports, country reports, and incoming telegrams
Box/Folder: 2
Regional reports,
1945-1946
Box/Folder: 2 : 10-15
Balkan region, including Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia,
1945-1946
Box/Folder: 3 : 1
Central Europe region, including Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland,
1946
Box/Folder: 3 : 2
Eastern Europe region, including Germany, Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia,
1946
Box/Folder: 3
Reports by country,
1942-1946
Box/Folder: 3 : 5
Czechoslovakia,
1945-1946
Box/Folder: 3 : 11
U.S. Department of State incoming telegrams,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Includes press releases on situation reports documenting economic and political situations in Albania, Czechoslovakia, and
Greece
Box: 4-5
Bulgaria materials,
1944-1947
Scope and Content Note
Contains reports, telegrams, minutes, and notes on political affairs in Bulgaria.
Arrangement
Arranged by physical form or title
Box/Folder: 4 : 1-11
Reports, telegrams, and notes,
1944
Scope and Content Note
Includes daily reports on the political and private affairs of Bulgarians
Box/Folder: 5 : 1-2
U.S. Department of State incoming telegrams,
1945-1946
Scope and Content Note
Includes press releases documenting reports on political and economic developments in Bulgaria
Box/Folder: 5 : 3
Nikola Petkov reports on communist activities,
1945
Box/Folder: 5 : 4-9
Allied Control Commission (ACC) meeting minutes,
1945-1947
Scope and Content Note
Concerns ACC activities in Bulgaria
Box/Folder: 5 : 10
"History of Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria,"
1946
Box: 5
Balkans in the 1990s materials,
1991-1994
Scope and Content Note
Consists of reports and a publication.
Arrangement
Arranged by subject
Box/Folder: 5 : 11
Serbian Orthodox Church leadership publication,
1991
Box/Folder: 5 : 12
"Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe" report,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Concerns the referendum in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Box/Folder: 5 : 13
Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (CHC) report on the events at the Dr. Martin Horvat Hospital, in Rovinj, Croatia,
1994
