At the back of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, is a café called Tito. Inside, a bronze bust of the man himself, Josip Broz Tito, presides over a red room bedecked with ...

NEW YORK — Some of us still get a little hazy about the seven nations in the lower right corner of Europe, east of Italy and north of Greece. So here’s a quick refresher: Slovenia is the birthplace of ...

On April 6, 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded by Germany during World War II, falling in 11 days and losing an estimated 1 million people during the next four years. The attack came as the result of a ...

Even an atomic world would be easy and safe if all political choices were between freedom and slavery, progress and reaction, good and evil. The world is not safe or easy, because many of the choices ...

The collapse of Yugoslavia was spectacular and sudden, but in the context of Balkan history it can hardly be said to have been surprising. From the outset, in the wake of the first world war, the ...

In 2017, I visited the House of Flowers in Belgrade, Serbia, the mausoleum that holds the remains of Yugoslavia’s once-indomitable leader, Josip Broz Tito, and his wife, Jovanka. The site feels less ...

Borko Vukosav says he was born in one country with two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, and six republics. Yugoslavia no longer exists, but its stories come to life in ...

Under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia charted a unique course during the Cold War, shunning alliances with the Eastern and Western blocs — the Soviet Union and the United States — while ...

With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in ...

Identify the country or countries which recently: a) sentenced a poet to two weeks in prison for penning “a mockery of the Holy Family and Jesus Christ”; b) promoted Pepsi-Cola in full-page newspaper ...