Full Description
Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations is the first book in English to analyse how and why the Yugoslav State Security Service carried out multiple targeted assassinations, over the country's forty-six years of existence, under the pretext of protecting the Yugoslav communist party-state. Offering a detailed history of the programme, from the inception of the State Security Service to the recent trials of individuals involved, it draws on Christian Axboe Nielsen's unique wealth of experience and research as an academic and as an expert witness in numerous criminal trials.
The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of targeted assassinations, communist history, state security services and related criminal trials.
Contents
Preface/Introduction
Chapter 1. The Establishment of the Yugoslav State Security Service
Chapter 2. Defining the Enemy: The Struggle against the "Enemy Émigrés"
Chapter 3. Agents, Infiltration and Surveillance: The Methods of the Yugoslav State Security
Service in Émigré (Diaspora) Communities
Chapter 4. Taking the Fight to Them: The 1972 Bugojno Uprising and the Shift to an Offensive
Stance
Chapter 5. Murder in Munich: The Assassination of Stjepan Ðurekovic
Conclusion: The Revenge of the Émigrés in the Collapse of Yugoslavia
Index
