Register of the Zarko Rista Popovic papers

Finding aid prepared by Nicholas Vucinich

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

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Title: Zarko Rista Popovic papers

Date (inclusive): 1917-1980

Collection Number: 75108

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In Serbo-Croatian

Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes (1.6 Linear Feet)

Abstract: The papers include diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, and clippings, relating to Yugoslav-Soviet relations, the Yugoslav coup d'état of 1941 March 27, relations of the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile with the United States and Great Britain, Draža Mihailović and the Yugoslav resistance movement during World War II, dissension within the Yugoslav resistance movement (especially as expressed in the so-called Cairo affair of 1942), and postwar Yugoslav émigré politics. Includes diaries, in Russian, for 1917-1931 and 1941-1975. Also available on microfilm (6 reels).

Creator: Popović, Žarko Rista, 1896-1989

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 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Zarko Rista Popovic Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternate Forms Available

Also available on microfilm (6 reels).

Biographical/Historical Note

1896	Born, Belgrade, Serbia
1905-1912	Attended Cadet School in Odessa, Russia. Graduated Military Academy (Artillery) in Petrograd, Russia
1914-1919	Served Serbian army in Serbia; twice wounded in action
1919-1921	Member of the Serbian military mission in Sofia, Bulgaria
1921-1923	Attended the Ecole supérieure de guerre in Paris, France
1924-1927	Served with a regiment in the Yugoslav Army, deployed to the general staff college in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1927-1932	General staff officer on various assignments with the Yugoslav army, including a detail as Aide de Camp to His Majesty King Alexander of Yugoslavia
1932-1935	Military attaché in Rome, Italy
1935-1936	Chief of staff for an infantry division in Yugoslavia
1936-1940	Director of intelligence, general staff, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1940-1941	Military Attaché in Moscow, U.S.S.R.
1941-1942	Director of intelligence, Yugoslav Force in Egypt
1942	Expelled from the Yugoslav Military after the Yugoslav army "Cairo Affair"
1942-1948	Commissioned by British military authority; served as Colonel with the British Forces in the Middle East in Egypt
1948-1949	Co-partner and chief translator at a translating office in London
1951-1952	Worked as an inspector with a South African insurance company in Nairobi, Kenya
1989	Died

Scope and Content of Collection

The papers document events following World War II, reflecting primarily on the Yugoslav coup d'état of 27 March 1941, relations of the Yugoslav government-in-exile with the United States and Great Britain, the resistance movement, and dissension within the Yugoslav military (especially as expressed in the "Cairo Affair" of 1942), as well as developments in the Yugoslav army in the Middle East and postwar Yugoslav émigré politics. Includes diaries, in Russian, for the years 1917 to 1931 and 1941 to 1975.

The papers also include material on Draža Mihailović and the Yugoslav resistance movement during World War II as well as a considerable number of records that provide insight into Yugoslav foreign relations, particularly Yugoslav-Soviet relations.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into five series: Correspondence, Diaries, Speeches and writings, Subject file, and Yugoslav Military Attaché in the Soviet Union office file.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements

World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia -- History -- Axis occupation, 1941-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Governments in exile

Military attachés

Yugoslavia -- History -- Coup d'état, 1941

Yugoslavs -- Great Britain

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Mihailović, Draža, 1893-1946

Correspondence 1940-1980

Scope and Contents note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 1, folder 1

Auchinleck, Claude 1942

box 1, folder 2

Béthouart, General 1974

box 1, folder 3

Fellers, Bonner 1941-1953

box 1, folder 4

Fellers, Nancy 1974

box 1, folder 5

Fortier, Louis, J. 1942-1953

box 1, folder 6

Jovanović, Slobodan 1942

box 1, folder 7

Knezević, Zivan 1942-1952

box 1, folder 8

Marković, Vladislav 1952

box 1, folder 9

Mauran, Frank, Jr. 1942

box 1, folder 10

Molle, Marie-Eugène-Aimé 1940-1952

box 1, folder 11

Nedić, Milan 1940

box 1, folder 12

Stanko 1969

box 1, folder 13

Vaso, reflecting on the Yugoslav army and World War II 1976-1980.

box 1, folder 14

Unsigned 1942, 1949

Diaries 1917-1975

box 1, folder 15

February 1917-February 1931

box 1, folder 15

July 1941-May 1942

box 1, folder 15

May 1942-October 1942

box 1, folder 15

October 1942-27 July 1943

box 1, folder 16

June 1945-January 1948. Includes Zwei Reichsmark, Fünf Reichsmark bills

box 1, folder 16

January 1948-December 1950

box 1, folder 16

January 1951-July 1953

box 1, folder 16

August 1953-September 1957

box 1, folder 16

October 1957-April 1962

box 2, folder 1

May 1962-February 1973

box 2, folder 2

February 1973-February 1975. Includes pressed wild flower

Speeches and writings 1940-1942

box 2, folder 3

Untitled memoir from the U.S.S.R. 1940-1941

box 2, folder 4

"Izveštaj o jačini i vrednosti Sovjetske vojne sile," July 9, 1941

box 2, folder 5

Memorandum on Yugoslav-American cooperation in organizing and equipping an intelligence unit to operate in Yugoslavia February 15, 1942

box 2, folder 6

"Moja služba u Sovjetskom Savezu," undated,

box 2, folder 7

"Začetci Gansterizma u medjunarodnoj politici; ustaše u službi Musolinija," undated

box 2, folder 8

Letter to the editor "Oslobođenje," undated

box 2, folder 9

Notes undated

Subject file 1940-1973.

Scope and Contents note

Reports, memoranda, minutes, printed material and clippings, arranged alphabetically by title

General 1940-1973

box 2, folder 10

Burazović, Stjepan 1971

box 2, folder 11

Chetniks 1941

Churchill, Winston 1942

box 2, folder 12

Churchill, Winston 1942

box 2, folder 13

"The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943," by Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1939-1943, transcript

box 2, folder 14

Fotić, Konstatin 1941

box 2, folder 15

Grol, Milan undated

box 2, folder 16

Knezević, Živan 1942

box 2, folder 17

Mihailović, Draža 1942 1943

box 2, folder 18

Mirković, Borivoje 1941 1942

box 2, folder 19

Ninčić, Momčilo 1942

box 2, folder 20

Partisans undated

box 2, folder 21

"Potpisivanje kapitulacije," Minutes of meeting of the Ministerial Council, Yugoslav Government, London 30 January 1942

box 2, folder 22

Serbian Cultural Club 1940

box 2, folder 23

Serbian Orthodox Church 1941

"Cairo Affair" materials 1942-1943

box 2, folder 24-25

General 1941-1943

box 2, folder 26

British Government - Royal Yugoslavia agreement 1942

box 3, folder 1

Causes and developments file 1942

box 3, folder 2

Minutes of the British Military Authority Yugoslavia meeting 1942

box 3, folder 3

Ž. Knežević, statement reports 1942-1943

box 3, folder 4

Ž. Knežević, reports regarding D. Simović, B. Ilić, B. Mirković, Ž Popović 1942

Correspondence 1941-1944

box 3, folder 5

General 1941-9144

box 3, folder 6

S. Jovanović to Eden, A. 1942

box 3, folder 7

S. Jovanović to Knežević, Ž. 1942

box 3, folder 8

S. Jovanović to Ninčić, K. 1942

box 3, folder 9

S. Jovanović to Rendel, G. 1942

box 3, folder 10

D. Simović to Churchill, W. 1942

box 3, folder 11

D. Simović to Mirković, B. 1941

box 3, folder 12

S. Živković to Cvetković 1949 1950

Dušan Simović 1941-1943 1970

box 3, folder 13

Correspondence 1941-1943

box 3, folder 14-22

"Memoari Generala Simovića i dokumenti 1939-1942," by Vojimir Kljaković, Politika August 21 - 24 November 1970

Yugoslav army in the Middle East 1941-1980

box 3, folder 23

Anthony Eden, report on the developments in Yugoslav army crisis 1942

box 3, folder 24

Appropriation of the state money among the Yugoslav army commanders, report 1941

box 3, folder 25

Developments in the Yugoslav army, reports 1942

box 3, folder 26

"Yugoslavia-Axis invasion, 1941," Politika 1973

Correspondence 1940-1941

box 4, folder 8

September 22, 1940

box 4, folder 9

October 1, 1940

box 4, folder 10

October 12, 1940

box 4, folder 11

October 20, 1940

box 4, folder 12

October 25, 1940

box 4, folder 13

October 30, 1940

box 4, folder 14

November 8, 1940

box 4, folder 15-20

November 22-26, 1940

box 4, folder 21-22

December 6-7, 1940

box 4, folder 23

(with enclosures December 18, 1940 dated November 16 and December 7)

box 4, folder 24

January 15, 1941

box 4, folder 25-27

February 4-6, 1941

box 4, folder 28

March 3, 1941

box 4, folder 29

March 6, 1941

box 4, folder 30

March 7, 1941

box 4, folder 31

March 10, 1941

box 4, folder 32-33

March 14-15, 1941

box 4, folder 34

May 5, 1941

box 4, folder 35

May 31, 1941

Yugoslavia coup d'état on March 27, 1941 1941-1973

box 3, folder 27

Collected materials 1941-1943, 1947, 1973

box 4, folder 1

Collected materials 1941-1943, 1947, 1973

box 4, folder 2

Paunović, Siniša, "Još jedna istina o 27 Martu 1941," Nin February 20 - June 25, 1972

Yugoslavia-Foreign relations 1940-1942

box 4, folder 3

Great Britain 1941

box 4, folder 4

United States of America 1941-1942

General, Ilija Jukić

box 4, folder 5

"Kratak prikaz naše spoljne politike i opće međunarodne politike u toku 1940 i početkom 1941," by Ilija Jukić

box 4, folder 6

"Razvitak naše spoljne politike i opće međunarod situacije od 14 Februara do 25 Marta 1941," by Ilija Jukić

box 4, folder 7

"Naše pristupanje trojnom paktu, kartak pregled događaja," 1941, by Miloje Smiljanić

Office File, Vojni Izaslanik Kraljevine Jugoslavije U.S.S.R. 1940-1941

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and reports by Zarko Popovic, Yugoslav Military Attaché in the Soviet Union, arranged chronologically.

box 4, folder 36

Gavrilović, Milan, correspondence from Moscow to Yugoslav Government, London 1941

Reports

box 4, folder 37

Prvi Izveštaj (First Report) October 5, 1940

box 4, folder 38

Sovjetsko - Finski odnosi i vojno - politička delatnost S.S.S.R. (Soviet Finnish relations and military - political activity of the U.S.S.R.) November 10, 1940

box 4, folder 39

Drugi Mesečni Izveštaj (Second Monthly Report) November 10, 1940

box 4, folder 40

Materijal koji je potrebno nabaviti iz Rusije (Material to be purchased from Russia) November 11, 1940

box 4, folder 41

Treci Mesečni Izveštaj (Third Monthly Report) December 17, 1940

box 4, folder 42

Cetvrti Mesečni Izveštaj (Fourth Monthly Report) February 1, 1941

box 4, folder 43

Peti Mesečni Izveštaj (Fifth Monthly Report) March 24, 1941

box 4, folder 44

Pešadija (Infantry) March 24, 1941

box 4, folder 45

Sastav, jačinu i Razmeštaj vojske March 25, 1941