- Vasilije Krestić
Vasilije Krestić (
Serbian Cyrillic : Василије Крестић) (1932-) is aSerbia n nationalist [Mikula, Maja: Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Exclusion. "Southeast European Politics" Vol. III, No. 1 - June 2002, pp. 65-66. Available online at PDFlink| [http://www.seep.ceu.hu/archives/issue31/mikula.pdf "seep.ceu.hu"] |118 KiB Retrieved21 April 2007 .]intellectual andhistorian , and a member of theSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts .As a
historian , he focuses on the history of theSerbs of theHabsburg Monarchy . In his early career, Krestić wrote about the history of Croatia before and after theNagodba of 1868, with special reference to theSerbs of Croatia and in Hungary. He has written numerous articles on related subjects.In the mid-1980s Krestić became involved in the politics of nationalist opposition to communism in Serbia. He became a voice of discontent regarding the status of the
Serbs of Croatia and helped to revive Serbian nationalism. [See for example the open letter of nine professors in defence of Dr. Roksandić, who was removed from the University of Belgrade in 1989 by the nationalist professors led by Krestić: Andrzej Walicki, Daniel Chirot, Gale Stokes, Ivan Szelenyi,Ivo Banac ,Jan T. Gross , Katherine Verdery,Norman Naimark ,Tony Judt : Fired in Belgrade. "The New York Review of Books", Volume 37, Number 5 - March 29, 1990. Available online at [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/3677 nybooks.com] . Retrieved21 April 2007 .] He was one of the leading authors of theMemorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , which was a founding document in the creation of the Serbian nationalist movement of the 1980s. Krestić was responsible for the sections that described theSerbs of Croatia as suffering genocide in that Yugoslav republic. He later (1995) published a defense of the Memorandum, withKosta Mihailović , another of the Memorandum's original authors. Krestić was also active in the defense ofSlobodan Milošević before theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).References
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