Republic of Užice
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Republic of Užice Užička republika Ужичка република | |||||||||
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Anthem: None official Drežnik 18 August 1941 | | ||||||||
• German ultimatum | 10 September 1941 | ||||||||
• Fall of Užice | 24 September 1941 | ||||||||
• Battle of Kadinjača | 29 November 1941 | ||||||||
1 December 1941 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Serbia | ||||||||
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The Republic of Užice (
Borders
The Republic of Užice comprised a large portion of western part of the occupied territory and had a population of more than 300,000
Different sources provide differing information about the size of the republic: according to some sources, it included 15,000[4] or 20,000[5] square kilometres.
History
The government was made of "people's councils" (odbori), and the partisans opened schools and published a newspaper, Borba (meaning "Struggle"). They even managed to run a postal system and around 145 km of railway and operated an ammunition factory from the vaults beneath the bank in Užice.[6]
In November 1941, in the
End
The leftist policy then pursued by
In popular culture
The 1974 Yugoslav
See also
- Republic of Bihać, a similar, albeit created 1 year later, republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Former countries in Europe after 1815
Notes
References
- ^ Hehn (1971), pp. 344–73
- ^ Pavlowitch (2002), p. 141
- ISBN 978-613-0-34365-1.
- ^ a b Report on World Affairs. RWA. 1985-01-01.
- ^ Pshennikov, S.; Nat͡sionalʹnyĭ komitet istorikov Sovetskogo Soi͡uza (1985-01-01). The Resistance movement in Europe during the Second World War: 16th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Stuttgart, August 1985. "Social Sciences Today" Editorial Board, USSR Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Misha Glenny, The Balkans, 1999, p. 487
- ^ "Užice Republic 1941". National Museum Uzice. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
- ^ Banac 1988, p. 81.
- ^ Petrović, Nenad (2009-02-09). "Politička Propaganda u Okupiranoj Srbiji: Milan Nedić, Velibor Jonić i Dimitrije Ljotić". www.crvenakritika.org (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
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Jelić, Ivan; Strugar, Novak (1985). War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Socialist Thought and Practice. p. 122.
Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia and the leaderships of the national liberation movement withdrew from Serbia early in December 1941
- ^ Pavlowitch 2002, p. 147: "When repression burst the bubble of optimism, the popular mood in Serbia also turned against the insurgency and those who wanted to carry on with revolution... The partisan crossed into nominally NDH territory, where they joined up with their comrades who had left Montenegro. "
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-8014-2186-1.
- Hehn, Paul N. (1971). "Serbia, Croatia and Germany 1941-1945: Civil War and Revolution in the Balkans". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 13 (4). . Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ISBN 9781850654773.
Further reading
- Venceslav Glišić, Užička republika, Belgrade, 1986.
- Jovan Radovanović, 67 dana Užičke republike (67 дана Ужичке републике), Belgrade, 1972. (1st edition, 1961.)
- Boško N. Kostić, Za istoriju naših dana, Lille, France, 1949.
External links
- Modern Serbia - Revolution and the antifascist struggle at Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Opština Užice
- Western Serbia
- National Museum Uzice