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  • Title: Alex N. Dragnich papers
    Date (inclusive): 1859-2008
    Collection Number: 77109
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: In English and Serbo-Croatian
    Physical Description: 80 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes, 1 phonotape reel (33.4 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Writings, correspondence, reports, studies, memoranda, legal and government documents, diaries, newspapers, photographs, and sound recording, relating to the history, politics, and government of Serbia and Yugoslavia, relations between Croatia and Serbia, activities of the Hrvatski Domobran in the United States, the communist party of Yugoslavia, the trial of Draza Mihailovic, and Serbian émigré affairs.
    Creator: Dragnich, Alex N.
    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 1977.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Alex N. Dragnich Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biography

    American political scientist; senior propaganda analyst, United States Department of Justice, 1942-1944; research analyst, United States Office of Strategic Services, 1944-1945; cultural attaché and public affairs officer, United States Embassy in Yugoslavia, 1947-1950.

    Biographical Note

    1912, February 22 Born, Republic, Washington
    1938 BA, University of Washington (Phi Beta Kappa)
    1939 MA, University of California (Berkeley)
    1939 Author, The Assumptions of Democracy in the Light of Biological and Psychological Criticisms
    1942-44 Senior propaganda analyst, U.S. Department of Justice
    1944-45 Research analyst, U.S. Office of Strategic Services
    1945 Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
    1945 Author, The Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia, 1869-1889
    1945-47 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
    1947-1950 Cultural Attache and Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy at Belgrade, Yugoslavia
    1949 Co-author, Yugoslavia, 1949
    1950-52 Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
    1952- Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
    1954 Author, Tito's Promised Land
    1955-56 Ford Fellow, Harvard University
    1956 Co-author, The Fate of East Central Europe
    1958 Author, International Communism in Yugoslavia
    1959-1960 Chester Nimitz Professor, U.S. Naval War College
    1961 Author, Major European Governments
    1966 Co-author, Government and Politics
    1974 Author, Serbia, Nikola Pasic, and Yugoslavia
    1979-1980 Book publications editor, Hoover Institution
    1982 Author, Politics and Government
    1983 Author, The First Yugoslavia
    1984 Author, The Saga of Kosovo
    1989 Author, Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia
    1992 Author, Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Writings, correspondence, reports, studies, memoranda, legal and government documents, diaries, newspapers, photographs, and sound recording, relating to the history, politics, and government of Serbia and Yugoslavia, relations between Croatia and Serbia, activities of the Hrvatski Domobran in the United States, the communist party of Yugoslavia, the trial of Draza Mihailovic, and Serbian émigré affairs.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Audiotapes
    World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia
    Serbs -- United States
    Serbia -- Politics and government
    Yugoslavia -- Politics and government
    Croats -- United States
    Communism -- Yugoslavia
    Mihailović, Draža, 1893-1946
    Hrvatski Domobran
    Savez komunista Jugoslavije