Wayne S. Vucinich collection, 1881-1994

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Summary

Creators:
United States. Department of State, Vucinich, Wayne S., and United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch
Abstract:
The collection contains reports, minutes, dispatches, and translations of and extracts from dispatches, relating to conditions in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and other areas of the Balkans and Eastern Europe before and during World War II, and especially to World War II resistance movements. Issuing agencies include the United States Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis Branch, the United States Department of State, and Allied occupation authorities in Bulgaria.
Extent:
5 manuscript boxes (2.0 Linear Feet)
Language:
In English, German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Bulgarian
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Wayne S. Vucinich Collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection is comprised of reports, minutes, telegrams, notes, translations of and extracts from dispatches relating to the Austrian administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina prior World War I, and World War II in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, particularly resistance movements in Yugoslavia and the exiled Yugoslav government.

The Bosnia-Herzegovina materials provide records of the Austrian administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the crisis in 1881-1882, and political tensions in 1913-1914.

The World War II in Yugoslavia files provide documentation on the politics of the Royal Yugoslav government in exile and its active role in the Yugoslav resistance movement and the formation of a new Yugoslavia, as well as Allied countries' diplomatic activities during wartime

The United States Department of State situation reports summarize information concerning domestic political and economic developments and international affairs in the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe during and after World War II.

The Bulgaria materials provide detailed information on Bulgarian political life and Bulgarian government between 1944 and 1946 in reports from the United States Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis Branch, the United States Department of State, and Allied occupation authorities in Bulgaria.

The Balkans in the 1990s materials document the international community's concerns on issues during the 1990s surrounding the referendum on independence in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, the events in Dr. Mirtin Horvat Hospital, Rovinj, and the leadership of the Serbian Orthodox church in Serbia.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1913
Born in Butte, Montana
1918-1928
After his parents' death, Vucinich lived in his parents' village of Orah, near Bileće, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
1929
Returned to America to live with his godfather's family in Wilmington, California
1936
BA, University of California Berkeley, History and Slavic language
1936-1937
MA, University of California Berkeley, dissertation on Serbian foreign policy 1903-1909
1937-1938
Doctoral research at the Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia
1939
Returned to UC Berkeley after the Munich crisis interrupted his research; appointed teaching assistant in the Department of History
1941
PhD, University of California Berkeley, dissertation on Serbian political and diplomatic history in the decade preceeding World War I
1942
Married Sara 'Sally'; joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Research and Analysis Branch
1943
Sent to OSS headquarters in Bari, Italy; assigned to research the Balkans
1944
Served as a liaison officer, interpreter, and Balkan expert attached to the Allied Control Council in Sofia, Bulgaria
1945-1946
Continued work on Balkan affairs for the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC
1946
Instructor, Western civilization and East European history at Stanford University
1950
Cleared and confirmed as a "Loyal American" at a hearing before the Naval Security Board
1954
Author, Serbia between East and West: The Events of 1903-1908, Stanford University Press
1955
Received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer prize
1956
Promoted to full professor at Stanford University
1972-1985
Named director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Stanford University
1974-1977
Curator of the Russian and East European Collection at the Hoover Institution
1977
Appointed the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford, a chair established for him
1978
Formally retired
1981-1982
Served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, which established the Vucinich Book Prize in his honor in 1982
2005
Died in Menlo Park, California

Sources:

Vucinich, Wayne S., Memories of My Childhood in Yugoslavia, edited by Larry Wolff, The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, Inc., Palo Alto, California, 2007

Wayne S. Vucinich (1913-2005)- A professor between Herzegovina and California by Ivo Banac, Published in Dani (Sarajevo), 29 April 2005

Wayne S. Vucinich, Father of East European Studies, Died at 91. http://www.i-newswire.com/wayne-s-vucinich-father-of-east/a17703

Memorial Resolution, Wayne S. Vucinich. http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/memorial_resolutions/Vucinich_Wayne_SenD6020.pdf

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1980.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Wayne S. Vucinich Collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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