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Sava D. Bosnitch also spelled Sava Bosnić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Боснић; 1923–2011) was an eminent historian[1], and professor at the University of New Brunswick.[2][3]Bosnitch was a member of the Board of Directors of the New Brunswick Multicultural Council and an ardent defender of human rights[4]. He was the president of the Canadian Association of Slavists in 1972-1973[5]

As an author of scholarly articles he was a contributor to the Canadian Slavonic Papers,[6][7][8] and presented his papers at various inter-disciplinary congresses[9][10]and inter-departmental committees on Slavonic and Soviet Studies[11]He was looked upon by his contemporaries as a Balkans specialist.[12]

Biography

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Born in Sremska Mitrovica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Sava Bosnitch moved with his family to Belgrade where he completed his grade school education and high school at the Novi Sad Gymnasium before enrolling at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade[13]. In Belgrade, Sava Bosnitch was in his third-year studies[14] when Nazi Germany attacked Yugoslavia in April 1941[15]. During the four-year German, Croatian, Bulgarian and Albanian occupation of Serbian lands, Sava, an officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army in the homeland, fought the invaders (of Nazi and Communist orientation) under General Dragoljub Mihailovich and by the war's end, he left Yugoslavia in the wake of an internecine war (along with other loyal patriots of the old regime) for Italy. There he studied politics and history at the University of Rome, and later at Geneva before emigrating to Montreal, Canada. At the University of McGill, he received his doctorate in 1958[16][17] with a dissertation entitled "The Foreign Policy 'Line' of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from September 1, 1939 until June 22, 1941" (mentor Miloš Mladenović)[18], a period he witnessed at great length before and during the war. Bosnitch's classmate at McGill in 1950 was Zbigniew Brezinski.

In 1996, Professor Bosnitch announced in a learned journal that he had discovered a confidential memorandum drawn up in June 1944 by the British Foreign Office regarding six ways to dismember Bosnia and Herzegovina once the war ended.[19]Curiously enough, the same methods were applied by the Communists who came into power in 1945. Some five decades later after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Wars, Franjo Tudjman and his successors still continued with the same scheme. Serbian hegemony in the Balkans was always a contentious issue for superpowers throughout the ages, not to mention the current new states in the Eastern European block.

Personal

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His son is a Canadian-born journalist John Bosnitch[20], the former head of the Free Bobby Fischer Committee, who now lives in Belgrade, Serbia.

Selected works

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  • Cardinal Stepinac, Facts and Fiction (1963)[21]
  • The Belgrade Putsch of 1941 and Great Britain (1965)[22]
  • The Significance of the Soviet Military Intervention in Yugoslavia 1944-1945, Study Centre for Yugoslav Affairs, London, 1969[23]
  • The Conversion from Stalinism to 'Titoism': Its Impact on the Yugoslav Communist Miitants[24]
  • Franjo Tudjman, Une Carrière Ambiguë, L'Age d'Homme, 1993[25][26]
  • When Did Tito Become A War Criminal? The South Slav Journal, 1989[27]
  • The Yugoslav Revolution, South Slav Journal, 1996[28]
  • Nationalism and Ethnicity in Yugoslavia: European Dimensions (co-authored with Miron Rezun,[29] 1992)[30]
  • The Cult of Tito, 1943-?, South Slav Journal (1992)[31]
  • Forced Conversions in Ustasha Croatia, Catholic New Times, 1992

References

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  1. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqLBcFF5fjwC&dq=%22Sava+Bosnitch%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA63%7Cisbn=9782825115862%7Ctitle=Le Kossovo dans l'âme|year=2001|publisher=L'Age d'Homme
  2. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6TiDwAAQBAJ&dq=Sava+Bosnitch+of+the+University+of+new+Brunswick&pg=PA983%7Cisbn = 9783112316252|title = A - L|date = 18 May 2020|publisher = Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  3. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBjrJyen4FEC&dq=%22Sava+Bosnitch%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA261%7Cisbn = 9780719064678|title = Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia|year = 2002|publisher = Manchester University Press
  4. ^ Cite web|url=https://troymedia.com/politicslaw/the-multicultural-communitys-growing-political-muscle/#.YfH4oVHMKUk%7Ctitle = The Canadian multicultural community's growing political muscle|date = 5 October 2017
  5. ^ https://sites.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/pdfs/conference_program_2004.pdf
  6. ^ The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies: 1993. Routledge. 27 February 2020. ISBN 9781315480831.
  7. ^ Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation. Routledge. 28 September 2007. ISBN 9781134085729.
  8. ^ Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia: Analyses and Survivor Testimonies. Jasenovac Research Institut. 2006. ISBN 9780975343203.e
  9. ^ Newsletter. 1963.}
  10. ^ Publications Supported by Multiculturalism Canada. Multiculturalism Canada. 1984.
  11. ^ Etudes Slaves et Est-européennes: Slavic and East-European Studies. Presses de l'Université Laval. 1965.
  12. ^ ""Sava Bosnitch, Balkan specialist - Google Search". www.google.com.
  13. ^ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_South_Slav_Journal/ezlpAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Sava+Bosnitch&dq=Sava+Bosnitch&printsec=frontcover
  14. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jo4C-glW5acC&q=%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%9B%7Ctitle=APF%7Cyear=1990%7Cpublisher=Pravni fakultet}}
  15. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezlpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sava+Bosnitch%22+-wikipedia%7Ctitle = The South Slav Journal|year = 1991|publisher = Dositey Obradovich Circle.
  16. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHgxVNo5UwoC&q=%22Sava+Bosnitch%22+-wikipedia%7Ctitle = Register of Post-graduate Dissertations in Progress in History and Related Subjects: Répertoire des Thèses en Cours Portant Sur des Sujets d'Histoire et Autres Sujets Connexes|year = 1972|publisher = Canadian Historical Association
  17. ^ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Register_of_Post_graduate_Dissertations/CHgxVNo5UwoC?hl=zh-CN&gbpv=1&bsq=Sava+Bosnitch&dq=Sava+Bosnitch&printsec=frontcover
  18. ^ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Register_of_Post_graduate_Dissertations/CHgxVNo5UwoC?hl=zh-CN&gbpv=1&bsq=Sava+Bosnitch&dq=Sava+Bosnitch&printsec=frontcover
  19. ^ "Slavic Review". American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1996.
  20. ^ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-gadfly-smooths-fischers-squirrelly-image/article1002631/
  21. ^ Newsletter. 1963.
  22. ^ "The New Review". A. Pidhainy. 1965.
  23. ^ The Communist Consolidation of Political Power in Yugoslavia, 1944-1945. University of Wisconsin--Madison. 1984.
  24. ^ https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JCS/article/view/14582
  25. ^ Avec les Serbes. L'Age d'Homme. 1996. ISBN 9782825106907.
  26. ^ Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJMMrcUPjJwC&dq=%22Sava+Bosnitch%22+-wikipedia&pg=PP2%7Ctitle = Pour la réconciliation des serbes|publisher = L'Age d'Homme
  27. ^ The South Slav Journal. Dositey Obradovich Circle. 1989.
  28. ^ "Labour History Review". Society for the Study of Labour History. 1993.
  29. ^ Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars: Ambivalent Stakes in the Middle East. Praeger. 1992. ISBN 9780275943240.
  30. ^ Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars: Ambivalent Stakes in the Middle East. Praeger. 1992. ISBN 9780275943240.
  31. ^ Europe's Backyard War: The War in the Balkans. Pearson Education New Zealand Limited. 1994. ISBN 9780434000036.
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