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Title: Milan Gavrilović papers,
Date (inclusive): 1938-1979
Collection number: 76072
Creator:
Gavrilović, Milan, 1882-1976
Extent:
54 manuscript boxes, 4 envelopes
(22.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, notes, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Yugoslav
politics and government, relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia during World War II, the Yugoslav government-in-exile,
Draza Mihailovic and the Cetnik resistance movement in occupied Yugoslavia, and the activities of Serbian émigré groups following
World War II. Also available on microfilm (66 reels).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Croatian,
and English.
Original materials closed. Microfilm use copies of most of collection available. Reels 3-6 (Boxes 3-5) closed.
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[Identification of item], Milan Gavrilović Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1976.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
Also available on microfilm (66 reels).
| 1882 December 6 | Born, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Receives elementary and secondary education in Eastern Serbia | |
| 1901 | Enters Law School, University of Belgrade. Founds and edits the student paper Oslobodjenje. Works as a reporter for Dnevni List, a Belgrade daily |
| 1902 | Suspended for a year from the University for refusing to attend classes as a political protest |
| 1905 | During Easter vacation joins the chetniks to fight for the liberation of southern parts of Serbia. Wounded in the Battle of Čelopek |
| 1906 | Graduates from Law School, University of Belgrade |
| 1907 | Enters Law School, University of Paris |
| 1911 | Receives Doctorate of Law degree (Doctorat d'Etat), University of Paris. His dissertation ("L'état et le droit") was awarded French state prize. Joins Political Section, Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1912 | Takes unofficial leave from the Ministry to fight in the Balkan War as a chetnik |
| 1913-1916 | Secretary to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Pašić |
| 1914 | Married Jelena Cincar-Janković |
| 1916-1923 | Serves in London (1916), Athens (1918), Berlin (1922), and Rome (1923), resigning from the service with the rank of Counselor |
| 1920 | Joins the newly founded Agrarian Party and is elected member of its Executive Committee |
| 1921-38 | Vice President, Serbian Agrarian Party |
| 1923 | Publishes a monograph, A Political and Economic Democracy, which is adopted as the platform of the Serbian Agrarian Party |
| 1923-1930 | Editor-in-Chief, Politika (Belgrade) |
| 1930 | Because of pressures on Politika exerted by the personal regime of King Aleksandar, is forced to leave the paper |
| 1936-1937 | Plays major part in negotiating an agreement between Croat leader Dr. Maček and Serbian opposition parties |
| 1938-1976 | President, Serbian Agrarian Party |
| 1940-1941 | Royal Envoy of Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union |
| 1941 | Minister (without portfolio) in the General Simović Government |
| 1942-1943 | Minister of Justice in the Yugoslav Government in Exile, London |
| 1950 | Settles in the United States |
| President of the Serbian National Federation and the Serbian National Defense. Executive member of the International Peasant Union. Publishes many articles on Communism in English and Serbian, two of which are entered into the Congressional Record ("What Now?" House, 1956, pp. A1741-2; "Street Mobs and Soviet Foreign Policy," Senate, 1960, pp. 15421-2). Resigns from all official positions after his eightieth birthday in 1962, but remains active until shortly before his death, writing monographs and articles and maintaining a voluminous correspondence | |
| 1976 January 1 | Dies, Bethesda, Maryland, and is buried in the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Saint Sava in Libertyville near Chicago, Illinois |
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, notes, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Yugoslav
politics and government, relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia during World War II, the Yugoslav government-in-exile,
Draza Mihailovic and the Cetnik resistance movement in occupied Yugoslavia, and the activities of Serbian émigré groups following
World War II. Also available on microfilm (66 reels).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
World War, 1939-1945--Yugoslavia.
Serbs in foreign countries.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Yugoslavia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
Yugoslavia--Politics and government.
World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
Mihailovic, Draza, 1893-1946.
Statesmen--Yugoslavia.
Diplomats--Yugoslavia.