Senior Research Fellow 

milivoj.beslin@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Milivoj Bešlin is a historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. During the 2017–2018 academic year, he taught at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro. He is the author of the two‑volume monograph The Idea of Modern Serbia in Socialist Yugoslavia, as well as more than one hundred scholarly studies, articles, essays, and reviews published in domestic and international journals and edited volumes. He has compiled and edited seven collections of papers, participated in numerous regional and international academic conferences, and contributed to the implementation of fifteen research projects. He currently serves as the coordinator of the project Imagining the Nation: Serbian National Narratives in Dispute (20th–21st Century), funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2024–2027). He is also the founder and coordinator of the Laboratory for the Study of Socialism and (Post)Yugoslav Studies (YugoLab) at the Institute and, since 2020, has held the position of Chair of the Institute’s Academic Council. His research encompasses a broad array of topics in the political and social history of Yugoslavia: the political system, social dynamics, modernization policies, internal reforms, and the federal structure of the Yugoslav state; contemporary historical revisionism, particularly in relation to the Second World War, the Chetnik movement, and antifascism; and the dynamics of Yugoslav federalism and inter‑republic relations, including Serbian‑Croatian relations and the question of Vojvodina’s autonomy. He has devoted particular attention to nationalism studies and to examining their impact on the dissolution of Yugoslavia, as well as to analyzing the ways in which nationalist ideologies shaped political processes, identity formation, and interethnic relations within both Yugoslav and post‑Yugoslav contexts. His work further includes methodological studies of Yugoslav historical research, with a focus on the epistemological boundaries and interpretive challenges characteristic of the postsocialist era.

• Aleksandra Jerkov, Milivoj Bešlin, Branislav Radeljić, “The depoliticization of protest: understanding the 2024/2025 Serbian students’ uprising”, Cogent Social Sciences, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2025.2583748
• Milivoj Bešlin, „Političke koncepcije Mirka Pejanovića o mestu i ulozi srpskog naroda u izgradnji državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine u 20. veku”, in: Doprinos akademika Mirka Pejanovića razvoju politologije. Povodom 80. godišnjice života i 40 godina naučnoistraživačkog rada. Edited volume, ed. Ivan Cvitković, ANUBiH, Sarajevo, 2025, p. 233-246.
• Milivoj Bešlin, „Borba s kontinuitetima: istorijski kontekst Filosofije palanke 1969. godine”, in: Privilegija manjine: o djel(ovanj)u Radomira Konstantinovića, ed. Tomislav Brlek, Bijeli val, Zagreb, 2025, p. 202-212.
• Petar Žarković, Milivoj Bešlin, „Brijunski plenum kao idejni i koncepcijski sukob: spor oko Državnoga sekretarijata za vanjske poslove”, Časopis za suvremenu povijest, Vol. 56, No. 2, Zagreb, 2024, p. 437-460.
• Milivoj Bešlin, „Kraljevina Jugoslavija – Frankov antikomunistički saveznik 1936–1939.”, in: Jugoslovenski dobrovoljci u odbrani Španske republike. Tematski zbornik radova, ed. Olga Manojlović Pintar, INIS, Beograd, 2024, p. 47-76.
• Milivoj Bešlin, „Ideološke i empirijske pretpostavke za Homogenu Srbiju u Drugom svetskom ratu: Zločini četničkog pokreta nad jugoslovenskim Muslimanima 1941-1945”, in: Zločini nad Bošnjacima Sandžaka u XX vijeku, Vol. I, Zbornik radova sa međunarodnog naučnog skupa, ed. Šerbo Rastoder, Institut za historiju, demografiju i antropologiju Sandžaka, Novi Pazar, 2024, p. 157-174.
• Milivoj Bešlin, “Federalistički osnovi Jugoslavije i državnost Bosne i Hercegovine 1941–1945.”, in: Državnost Bosne i Hercegovine u XX i XXI stoljeću: historijski izazovi i dostignuća u razvoju državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, ed. Mirko Pejanović, ANUBiH, Sarajevo, 2024, p. 68-85.
• Milivoj Bešlin, “From Resistance to Collaboration: The Evolution of the Chetnik Movement in Serbia in 1941”, in: Wer ist Walter? International Perspectives on Resistance in Europe during World War II, ed. Nicolas Moll, Historijski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo, 2024, p. 273-294.
• Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković, “Adil Zulfikarpašić i Bosanski pogledi prema „totalitarnim pokretima“ u Jugoslaviji“, in: Bošnjaci u emigraciji: Adil Zulfikarpašić i nacionalno-politički vidokrug časopisa Bosanski pogledi, zbornik radova, Bošnjački institut, Sarajevo, 2023, p. 95-111.
• Milivoj Bešlin, „AVNOJ u revoluciji: Konstituisanje federativne Jugoslavije u Drugom svetskom ratu 1941-1945.”, Historia moderna. Tematski broj – 80 godina od Drugog zasjedanja AVNOJ-a, Vol 4, No. 4, Sarajevo, 2023, p. 9-46.
• Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković, „The Rise and Fall of Democratic Socialism in Yugoslavia 1948-1972.”, Philosophy and Society, Vol. 34, No. 4, Beograd, 2023, p. 550–570.
• Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković, “Krsta Cicvarić i beogradska “žuta štampa” u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji”, Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju, Vol. 30, No. 3, Beograd, 2023, p. 55-71.
• Milivoj Bešlin, Srđan Milošević, “The Kingdom of Yugoslavia an the return of the planned elite: The case of Professor Dr Đorđe Joannović”, ACTA historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae, veterinariae, Vol. 42, No. 1, Beograd, 2023, p. 57-69.
• Petar Žarković, Milivoj Bešlin, “Od demokratskog do realnog socijalizma: jugoslovensko-sovjetski ideološki spor i njegovi rezultati”, Montenegrin Journal for Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 1, Podgorica, 2023, p. 9-34.
• Milivoj Bešlin, Ideja moderne Srbije u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji, knjiga 1, Akademska knjiga – IFDT, Novi Sad – Beograd, 2022, p. 546.