Vladimir Ćorović’s seminal work Односи између Србије и Аустро-Угарске у XX веку (The Relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary in the 20 th century)

Vladimir Ćorović’s seminal work Односи између Србије и Аустро-Угарске у XX веку (The Relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary in the 20 th century) is out in print. This is a joint publishing venture of the Archives of Yugoslavia, the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University, California), with Milan Terzić and Vojislav Pavlović, the directors of the first two institutions respectively, as editors-in-chief. Ćorović’s monograph was written in the mid-1930s as a reaction to the intensive propaganda efforts to pin the blame for the outbreak of the Great War on Serbia. Because of the international situation marked by the rise of Nazi Germany at that time, and later on account of Ćorović’s proscription under the Tito communist regime in Yugoslavia after the Second World War, it was not before 1992 that the Serbian edition of the book saw the light of day. A partial translation to English done by the Yugoslav diplomat Stojan Gavrilović in the 1930s remained completely forgotten among the treasure trove of manuscripts at the Hoover Institution until the late director of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Dušan T. Bataković, had unearthed it and decided to try to have it published. It took much effort to correct the existing translation of the