Ivo Banac - Wikipedia Ivo Banac From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Croatian historian and politician Ivo Banac Born 1 March 1947 Dubrovnik, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia Died 30 June 2020(2020-06-30) (aged 73) Zagreb, Croatia Alma mater Stanford University Fordham University[1] Spouse(s) Andrea Feldman Scientific career Fields Historian Institutions Stanford University Yale University Central European University[2][3] Ivo Banac (Croatian pronunciation: [iːʋo baːnats]; 1 March 1947 – 30 June 2020) was a Croatian-American historian, a professor of European history at Yale University and a politician of the former Liberal Party in Croatia, known as the Great Bard of Croatian historiography.[4] As of 2012[update], Banac was a consultant for the Bosnian Institute.[5] He died after a serious illness at age 73.[6] Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected bibliography 2.1 Books 2.2 Papers 3 References 4 External links Biography[edit] Banac was born in Dubrovnik in 1947. In 1959 he emigrated to the United States with his mother, reuniting with his father who had escaped from Yugoslavia in 1947.[7] After his father's death in a traffic accident a year later, Ivo lived with his mother in New York City,[7] where he studied history at Fordham University, graduating in 1969.[1] In the same year Banac moved to California,[7] where he obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford University.[1] Although he was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, by his own account he was not attracted by the West Coast flower power movement of the late 1960s.[7] Banac worked at the Stanford University Department of History and Linguistics from 1972 to 1977,[2] and then moved back to the East Coast to teach at Yale University. While at Yale, he earned his tenure, and was a two-time master of Pierson College.[7]His 1984 book The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics was awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize for the best North American book in the field of Russian and Eastern European studies.[8][9] During his stay in the United States, Banac regularly visited Yugoslavia.[7] While visiting Zagreb in 1971, he met Vlado Gotovac and Franjo Tuđman, who would both become major Croatian political figures after the fall of communism.[7] Banac remained in close contact with Gotovac until his death in 2000;[7] on the other hand, he reportedly didn't think highly of Tuđman, describing him as a person who could not tolerate dissent.[7] Nonetheless, Banac organized Tuđman's lecture at Yale University in 1990.[7] In 1990, Banac was accepted as an associate member in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[10] Between 1994 and 1999 he was the director of the Institute on Southern Europe at the Central European University, Budapest. From 1990 onwards, Ivo Banac was also active in Croatian politics. He joined the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and became one of the strongest critics of Franjo Tuđman and his government, especially with regards to policy towards Bosnia and Herzegovina. He expressed his criticism in a column written for Feral Tribune. After the HSLS split in 1997, Banac joined the Liberal Party, keeping a critical distance towards the government even after LS became part of a new governing left-centre coalition in 2000. He often accused Ivica Račan of the SDP of not doing enough to reverse the negative policies of Tuđman's era. Many were surprised to find Banac, who had a reputation of a maverick and independent intellectual, become the leader of the LS. It was even more surprising to see him take the post of Minister of Environmental Protection in 2003. He held that post for only a few months, until the SDP - the party with whom the LS was aligned - lost the election to a rejuvenated HDZ.[citation needed] He was elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2003 Croatian parliamentary election.[11] After the elections, Banac advocated a merger of all liberal parties in Croatia. This policy was opposed by Zlatko Kramarić who orchestrated Banac's removal from the party leadership in 2004. Banac left the LS in February 2005 and was an independent representative in the Sabor for the rest of his term.[11] He was publicly criticized for having allegedly mishandled public funds, by renting his personal apartment to himself as office space, as well as furnishing it with taxpayers money.[12] Banac replied, to accusations that such actions constitute mishandling of public funds, that while "the data published in the media are correct, it is all a matter of interpretation, is the glass half full or half empty".[13] Between 2007 and 2009, Banac was the President of the Croatian Helsinki Committee. At Yale, he was the Bradford Durfee Professor of History Emeritus.[3] He also served as the director of the Council on European Studies at Yale University. Selected bibliography[edit] Books[edit] Banac, Ivo (1984). The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (1. ed.). Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801416750.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Banac, Ivo (1988) [1984]. The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (1. printing of the 2. ed.). Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Banac, Ivo (1992) [1984]. The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (2. printing of the 2. ed.). Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801494931.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist splits in Yugoslav communism (1988) Cijena Bosne [The Price of Bosnia] (1996) Raspad Jugoslavije [The Break-up of Yugoslavia] (2001). Papers[edit] Banac, Ivo; Stancic, Niksa (Dec 1982), "Review of Hrvatska nacionalna ideologija preporodnog pokreta u Dalmaciji", The American Historical Review, The American Historical Review, Vol. 87, No. 5, 87 (5): 1426–27, doi:10.2307/1857021, JSTOR 1857021 Banac, Ivo (1983), "The Confessional "Rule" and the Dubrovnik Exception: The Origins of the "Serb-Catholic" Circle in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia", Slavic Review, Slavic Review, Vol. 42, No. 3, 42 (3): 448–474, doi:10.2307/2496046, JSTOR 2496046 Banac, Ivo (1989), "Continuing EEPS", East European Politics & Societies, 4 (1): 1–3, doi:10.1177/0888325490004001001 Banac, Ivo (1992), "The Demise of Yugoslavia: Introduction", East European Politics & Societies, 6 (3): 219, doi:10.1177/0888325492006003001 Banac, Ivo (1992), "Historiography of the Countries of Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia", The American Historical Review, 97 (4): 1084–1104, doi:10.2307/2165494, JSTOR 2165494 Banac, Ivo (1993), "Misreading the Balkans", Foreign Policy, 93 (93): 173–182, doi:10.2307/1149027, JSTOR 1149027 Banac, Ivo (1994), "EEPS and Editorial Transition", East European Politics & Societies, 8 (3): 381–382, doi:10.1177/0888325494008003001 Banac, Ivo (1998), "Law, Lawyers and the Holocaust: The Case Against Vichy France", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 12 (1): 175–177, doi:10.1093/hgs/12.1.175 Banac, Ivo (2000), "Silencing the archival voice: the destruction of archives and other obstacles to archival research in post-communist Eastern Europe", Arhivski Vjesnik, 42 (42) Banac, Ivo (2000), "Sorting Out the Balkans: Three New Looks at a Trouble Region", Foreign Affairs, May/June 2000, archived from the original on 2008-12-11 Banac, Ivo (2002), "The Weight Of False History", Forum Bosnae (15): 201–206 Banac, Ivo (2008), "From Tito to Milosevic: Yugoslavia, the Lost Country", The Slavonic and East European Review, 86 (1): 180–181 References[edit] ^ a b c "Ivo Banac - Izobrazba", Tko je tko u hrvatskoj znanosti (in Croatian), Ruđer Bošković Institute, retrieved 2009-06-12 ^ a b "Ivo Banac - Zaposlenja", Tko je tko u hrvatskoj znanosti (in Croatian), Ruđer Bošković Institute, retrieved 2009-06-12 ^ a b "Ivo Banac", www.yale.edu, Yale University, archived from the original on 2010-08-21, retrieved 2010-11-29 ^ Kljaić, Stipe (2020): IVO BANAC (1947-2020): FIDES, RATIO, LIBERTAS Review of Croatian history XVI (I): 267-273. ^ Bosnian Institute - People, Bosnian Institute, retrieved 2012-11-03 ^ "Preminuo povjesničar Ivo Banac". Hrvatska radiotelevizija. Retrieved 2020-07-01. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bajruši, Robert (8 April 2003). "Ivo Banac - Američki profesor protiv balkanskih političara" [Ivo Banac - US professor against Balkan politicians]. Nacional (in Croatian). No. 386. Archived from the original on 3 July 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2019. ^ Othon Anastasakis, David Madden, Elizabeth Roberts; (2016) Balkan Legacies of the Great War p. x; Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 113756413X ^ Ivo Banac - Nagrade i priznanja (Ivo Banac - Awards and recognitions); [1] ^ "Ivo Banac profile". Članovi Akademije (in Croatian). Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Archived from the original on 2010-04-27. Retrieved 2010-11-29. ^ a b "Ivo Banac - nezavisni". Zastupnici 5. saziva Hrvatskoga sabora (in Croatian). Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 2010-11-29. ^ "Ovo su ljudi koji čuvaju ugled Sabora". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 2009-02-24. Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2010-11-29. ^ "Banac o tome kako je sam sebi iznajmio poslovni prostor: Sve je legalno!". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 2008-09-23. Retrieved 2016-04-29. External links[edit] Ivo Banac - Detalji znanstvenika (in Croatian) (Scientist profile at the Ruđer Bošković Institute) Political offices Preceded by Božo Kovačević 0Minister of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning0 2003 Succeeded by Marina Matulović-Dropulić Party political offices Preceded by Zlatko Kramarić President of the Liberal Party 2003–2004 Succeeded by Zlatko Benašić Non-profit organization positions Preceded by Danijel Ivin President of the Croatian Helsinki Committee 2007–2009 Succeeded by Ivan Zvonimir Čičak Authority control BNF: cb120311504 (data) GND: 130574449 ISNI: 0000 0001 0913 5604 LCCN: n82038765 NKC: js20020805951 NTA: 069734011 PLWABN: 9810566974105606 SUDOC: 028484797 VIAF: 71406072 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n82038765 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivo_Banac&oldid=990053898" Categories: 1947 births 2020 deaths People from Dubrovnik Croatian historians Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament Historians of the Balkans Historians of the Holocaust Historians of communism Stanford University Department of History faculty Yale University faculty Fordham University alumni Stanford University alumni Croatian Social Liberal Party politicians Liberal Party (Croatia) politicians Government ministers of Croatia Croatian human rights activists Hidden categories: CS1 Croatian-language sources (hr) Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles with hCards Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2012 All articles containing potentially dated statements All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from October 2013 CS1 maint: ref=harv CS1: long volume value Articles with Croatian-language sources (hr) Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Bosanski Deutsch Hrvatski Polski Română Simple English Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Edit links This page was last edited on 22 November 2020, at 15:10 (UTC). 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