1. How to Digitize and Permanently Preserve Planning Documentation : How to Digitize and Permanently Preserve Planning Documentation: The Collection of Plans of the Architectural Department of the Ministry of Construction of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Preconditions, Priorities, Criteria, Primary and Final Goals and New Technologies)Đurđija Borovnjak, 2022, other scientific articles Abstract: Digitization of large format archives, in this case architectural plans, is a great challenge, not only in technical terms due to their dimensions and the nature and sensitivity of the materials, but also because of the choice of digitization equipment. As a problem of particular importance, the harmonization of archival standards is also imposed as necessary as well as the information standards, the creation of valid digital platforms and the standards prescribed in the formation of the content. Based on modern examples of practice, the study will address and explain the improved analogue technology in the form of microfilming, as well as the possibilities that it offers in the field of protection and conservation of urban documentation today in the form of manipulation of the digital record of information with analogue technologies and their mutual relationship. An example of this will be given through the presentation of the Piql program and its role in storing data that strive for authenticity and durability on media that provide the security without the possibility of losing the metadata within the network and energy consumption. The presentation will briefly show the state of analogue technologies in archival practice in Serbia and the perspectives of their future technological improvement.
Keywords: architecture, planning documentation, Architectural Department of the Ministry of Construction of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, digitization, software example Pigl
Published in DiRROS: 06.08.2026; Views: 85; Downloads: 52
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2. Evaluating chatbot assistance in historical document analysisDavid Hazemali, Janez Osojnik, Tomaž Onič, Tadej Todorović, Mladen Borovič, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: The article explores the potential of PDFGear Copilot, a chatbot-based PDF editing tool, in assisting with the analysis of historical documents. We evaluated the chatbot's performance on a document relating to the Slovenian War of Independence. We included 25 factual and 5 interpretative questions to address its formal characteristics and content details, assess its capacity for in-depth interpretation and contextualized critical analysis, and evaluate the chatbot’s language use and robustness. The chatbot exhibited some ability to answer factual questions, even though its performance varied. It demonstrated proficiency in navigating document structure, named entity recognition, and extracting basic document information. However, performance declined significantly in tasks such as document type identification, content details, and tasks requiring deeper text analysis. For interpretative questions, the chatbot's performance was notably inadequate, failing to link cause-and-effect relationships and provide the depth and nuance required for historical inquiries.
Keywords: chatbots, historical document analyses, Yugoslavia, wars, generative, artificial intelligence, large language models
Published in DiRROS: 05.08.2026; Views: 143; Downloads: 64
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3. Youth Labour Brigades in Yugoslavia and Representations of Volunteerism : A Study of Participation in Restored Federal Labour Actions by The People’s Youth in the District of KoperGašper Mithans, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: The author discusses the issue of volunteerism in labour actions in Yugoslavia raised by several scholars, distinguishing between different phases, which mostly corresponded to changes in the socialist regime and society in general. With its research based on literature and archival sources, the question of the voluntary character of the youth labour actions is explored. The district of Koper in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the crucial period in the process of the transformation of youth labour actions, is paid particular attention, drawing on the experiences of the brigadiers and the challenges that the People’s Youth had to face.
Keywords: youth labour actions, volunteerism, socialist Yugoslavia, People’s Youth, Koper
Published in DiRROS: 29.07.2026; Views: 173; Downloads: 94
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4. Comparison of Social Insurance Legislation of The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and The Kingdom of Yugoslavia : Legal InheritanceJelena Rafailović, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: This paper compares the social insurance legislation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy with the postwar general social insurance legislation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. The social legislature within the labour legislature was set up after the First World War and represented an important step towards the development of the social institutions in Yugoslavia. Similarities and differences in the development of the pillars of modern social states will be represented by a comparative analysis of the legislation in the field of health insurance through several aspects: differences between inherited social laws in the Kingdom; share of the Habsburg legislature in the new unified Law on Workers’ Insurance (1922) and implementation of the law.
Keywords: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, Austro-Hungarian monarchy, social insurance, workers legislation, Central Office for the Insurance of Workers, the interwar period
Published in DiRROS: 29.07.2026; Views: 194; Downloads: 98
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5. Exchanging the “Progressive Experiences” in a Transnational Perspective : Nationality, Economy and Federalism in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in the 1960sTomaž Ivešić, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: This paper focuses on the transnational aspects of the exchanges of experiences (in nationality policies, economy, and federalization) between the Yugoslav and Czechoslovak intellectual elites. By drawing parallels between the two cases, a striking resemblance can be seen. While Slovak intellectual elites used Yugoslavia as a role model to solve the Czechoslovak national question, the latter also served as one of the models for the economic reform of Ota Šik and for the federal transformation of the Czechoslovak state under Zdeněk Mlynář’s watch.
Keywords: nationalism, socialism, federal government, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Federalism
Published in DiRROS: 10.07.2026; Views: 167; Downloads: 122
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6. »Privreda kao veliki ekonomski sistem« : uspostavljanje složenih formi organizacije i upravljanja u jugoslovenskoj privredi (1945–1950)Aleksandar Rakonjac, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: The end of the Second World War fundamentally changed the circumstances in Yugoslavia. The authentic revolution under the inviolable leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia created a radically different political situation. There was no political force that stood against the communist rulers and they had carte blanche to build the state from the ground up. However, in the absence of their own experience, they had to rely on Soviet models. The construction of a large economic system soon became the most important segment of state policy. This paper based on archival sources of Yugoslav provenance aims to shed light on the origins, development and scope of this process.
Keywords: Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, economy, corporatization
Published in DiRROS: 08.07.2026; Views: 165; Downloads: 134
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7. The Impact of the 1968 Prague Spring on Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Military DoctrinesBlaž Torkar, Stanislav Polnar, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: This paper analyzes and compares the impact of the 1968 Prague Spring on military and strategic thinking in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. A great change in the Czechoslovakian military caused Memorandum 68, a proposal of domestic military doctrine which consistently took into account the vital security interests of Czechoslovakia in international relations at that time. The document was mainly based on the inviolability of Czechoslovak territory and the right of its nations to defend their own existence regardless of the superpower interests of the Soviet Union. At the same time Yugoslavia began to develop its own doctrine of the General People’s Defence and Social Self-Protection, which emphasized its total nature, creating the reality of the concept of a “nation in arms,” which attached great importance to soldiers and the art of soldiering in Yugoslavia.
Keywords: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Prague Spring, military doctrine, Memorandum 68, NATO, Warsaw Pact
Published in DiRROS: 08.07.2026; Views: 194; Downloads: 136
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8. Relationship between Legislative and Executive Powers in the Yugoslav Socialist ConstitutionsGoran Marković, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: The aim of the work is to examine the relationship between the legislative and the executive power in socialist Yugoslavia, in order to answer the question whether and to what extent the principles of the assembly system had really been constitutionally guaranteed. The author analyzes competencies and mutual relationship between the legislative and executive power in the four constitutional acts (1946, 1953, 1963, 1974). The constitutional acts proclaimed that the Assembly was the supreme organ of power, while the constitutional theory claimed that it was the assembly system of power although the constitutional acts contained competencies of the political-executive organs which gave them considerable influence. This had been the least visible in the 1953 and 1963 constitutional acts, while the 1946 and 1974 constitutions seriously strengthened the position of the executive power. Therefore, the author only reluctantly concludes that the Yugoslav constitutional system had the features of the assembly system. More precisely, it had been a kind of mixed system with the elements of the assembly system and the separation of powers, at least in the 1946 and 1974 constitutions.
Keywords: Yugoslavia, assembly system, constitution, Federal Assembly, Federal Executive Council, President of the Republic, Presidency of SFRY
Published in DiRROS: 07.07.2026; Views: 206; Downloads: 154
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9. How do You Solve a Problem Like Bosnia? : Laibach as Cultural Ambassadors in the Post-Yugoslav ContextIrena Šentevska, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: This article follows chronologically the changes in the public perception of Laibach in Slovenia, Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav countries, Laibach’s relation to the Slovenian state, and the group’s status of informal (and occasionally formal) cultural ambassadors of Slovenia in the post-Yugoslav context. Because the state (in abstract terms) and Slovenian cultural identity play such an important role in Laibach’s artistic output, their formal and informal representation of the Slovenian state and national identity are often misperceived by the media and cultural commentators. The aim of this article is to establish on which occasions and in which contexts Laibach have actually and formally represented Slovenia at international events.
Keywords: Laibach, state, cultural diplomacy, Yugoslavia, Slovenia
Published in DiRROS: 01.07.2026; Views: 213; Downloads: 131
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10. The Nationalisation of History in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav Medieval History TextbooksSergej Flere, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: Elementary-school history textbooks dealing with the Middle Ages in Yugoslav (1945–1991) and post-Yugoslav republics were examined, with a focus on the history of each republic or state. The treatment of medieval domestic history was compared both across contexts and over time. Our interest lay in the nationalisation of history, which can also generate contradictions among textbooks. Such contradictions may concern claims to territories, historical figures, peoples and events; however, we did not examine possible portrayals of golden ages. Contradictory claims were already present within socialist Yugoslavia, not only after its dissolution, when the successor states enthusiastically pursued their nation-building projects.
Keywords: history textbooks, Yugoslavia, territorial claims, lineage, nationalisation of history
Published in DiRROS: 30.06.2026; Views: 136; Downloads: 117
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