The goal of Ivo Goldstein’s lecture are not to provide firm and final answers, but to indicate methodological procedures on how to approach questions and seek answers to them. First of all, Goldstein intends to contrast scrupulous historical research with political manipulation that often drives the pulic attention to wrong topics, such as the questions whether Yugoslavia was “beneficial” or “harmful” for a nation. The terms “usefulness” or “harmfulness”, however, belong to the categorical apparatus of politics, and not that of historical science. Also, the lecture will provide an overview of the state of historiography in the former Yugoslav countries, … Continue reading “Tea party” with Ivo Goldstein: Yugoslavia – “Ideal state framework”, “artificial creation” or “prison of nations”?