Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Biographical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Alex N. Dragnich Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1859-2008
Collection Number: 77109
Creator:
Dragnich, Alex N.
Collection Size:
80 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes, 1 phonotape reel
(33.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, reports, studies, memoranda, legal and government documents, diaries, newspapers, photographs, and
sound recording, relating to the history, politics, and government of Serbia and Yugoslavia, relations between Croatia and
Serbia, activities of the Hrvatski Domobran in the United States, the communist party of Yugoslavia, the trial of Draza Mihailovic,
and Serbian émigré affairs.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English and
Serbo-Croatian.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alex N. Dragnich Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1977.
Accruals
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.
Access Points
Mihailovic, Draza, 1893-1946.
Hrvatski Domobran.
Savez Komunista Jugoslavije.
Croats--United States.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Yugoslavia.
Serbia--Politics and government.
Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia--Politics and government.
Serbs--United States.
Communism--Yugoslavia.
Communism.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
Phonotapes.
Biography
American political scientist; senior propaganda analyst, United States Department of Justice, 1942-1944; research analyst,
United States Office of Strategic Services, 1944-1945; cultural attaché and public affairs officer, United States Embassy
in Yugoslavia, 1947-1950.
Biographical Note
| 1912, February 22 |
Born, Republic, Washington |
| 1938 |
BA, University of Washington (Phi Beta Kappa) |
| 1939 |
MA, University of California (Berkeley) |
| 1939 |
Author,
The Assumptions of Democracy in the Light of Biological and Psychological Criticisms
|
| 1942-44 |
Senior propaganda analyst, U.S. Department of Justice |
| 1944-45 |
Research analyst, U.S. Office of Strategic Services |
| 1945 |
Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley) |
| 1945 |
Author,
The Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia, 1869-1889
|
| 1945-47 |
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1947-1950 |
Cultural Attache and Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy at Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| 1949 |
Co-author,
Yugoslavia, 1949
|
| 1950-52 |
Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University |
| 1952- |
Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University |
| 1954 |
Author,
Tito's Promised Land
|
| 1955-56 |
Ford Fellow, Harvard University |
| 1956 |
Co-author,
The Fate of East Central Europe
|
| 1958 |
Author,
International Communism in Yugoslavia
|
| 1959-1960 |
Chester Nimitz Professor, U.S. Naval War College |
| 1961 |
Author,
Major European Governments
|
| 1966 |
Co-author,
Government and Politics
|
| 1974 |
Author,
Serbia, Nikola Pasic, and Yugoslavia
|
| 1979-1980 |
Book publications editor, Hoover Institution |
| 1982 |
Author,
Politics and Government
|
| 1983 |
Author,
The First Yugoslavia
|
| 1984 |
Author,
The Saga of Kosovo
|
| 1989 |
Author,
Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia
|
| 1992 |
Author,
Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia
|
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, correspondence, reports, studies, memoranda, legal and government documents, diaries, newspapers, photographs, and
sound recording, relating to the history, politics, and government of Serbia and Yugoslavia, relations between Croatia and
Serbia, activities of the Hrvatski Domobran in the United States, the communist party of Yugoslavia, the trial of Draza Mihailovic,
and Serbian émigré affairs.