Rajak, Svetozar


Dr Svetozar Rajak  

Department

Position held

Department of International History

Lecturer

LSE IDEAS

Academic Director

Experience keywords:

Balkans; Cold War; communism; non-alignment; third world; socialism; Eastern Europe

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Dr Rajak's research interests are in twentieth century international history, in particular the Cold War, the history of the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the making of the post Cold War international system.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Balkans; Bosnia; Soviet Union; Slovenia; Kosovo; Serbia; Eastern Europe; Russia; Croatia; Macedonia; Montenegro; ex-Yugoslavia

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Slovene [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; Russian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Bulgarian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Serbo-Croat [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Macedonian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6178

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2010

Rajak, Svetozar (2010) Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the early Cold War: reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-57. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415380744

2009

Rajak, Svetozar (2009) The Cold War in the Balkans: From the Greek civil war to Soviet-Yugoslav normalization. In: Leffler, Melvyn P. and Westad, Odd Arne, (eds.) Cambridge history of the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521837194

2005

Rajak, Svetozar (2005) Auf der Suche nach einem Leben außerhalb der beiden Blöcke: Jugoslawiens Weg in die Blockfreiheit. In: Geppert, Dominik and Wengst, Udo, (eds.) Neutralität- Chance oder Chimäre?: Konzepte des Dritten Weges für Deutschland und die Welt, 1945-1990. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München, Germany, pp. 155-176. ISBN 9783486577020

Rajak, Svetozar (2005) In search of a life outside the two blocs: Yugoslavia's road to non-alignment. In: Dimic, Ljubodrag, (ed.) Great powers and small countries in Cold War, 1945-1955. University of Belgrade, Archives of Serbia and Montenegro and SD Public, Belgrade, Serbia. ISBN 8680099082

2001

Rajak, Svetozar (2001) The Tito - Khrushchev correspondence, 1954. Cold War international history bulletin, (12-13). pp. 315-324. ISSN 1071-9652

2000

Rajak, Svetozar (2000) Yugoslav-Soviet relations and the Hungarian crisis in 1956. Isotija 20 veka, (2). pp. 83-98. ISSN 0352-3160

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