IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0369 ALE
Held at: School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Title: Alexander Collection
Date(s): 1962-1989
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 3 files
Name of creator(s): Alexander | Stella | b 1912 | author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Stella Alexander (b. 1912) has written several books on religion in Yugoslavia
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and papers of Stella Alexander on religion in Yugoslavia, 1962-1989, comprising:
Commentaries and off prints re Yugoslav legislation on religion;
Correspondence with and relating to Milovan and Stefica Djilas; notes and recollections of Milovan Djilas. He was a close ally of Marshall Tito during the pre and Second World War period but was later estranged and expelled from the Communist Party;
papers on Father Krunoslav Draganovic, who had been a senior official of the Ustasha committee that handled the forced conversion of the Serbs. In 1943, the Ustasha arranged with the Church for Draganovic to be sent to Rome. There he served at a seminary of Croatian monks that was in fact a centre of clandestine Ustasha activity.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English & Serbo-Croat
System of arrangement:
3 files, as described above
Conditions governing access:
The papers are open, apart from Djilas material (file 2) which requires authorisation of Stella Alexander. Researchers wishing to consult the archives or seeking further information should contact UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Library, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Librarian.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Online catalogue available on the UCL Archives website.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Stella Alexander received the papers on Krunoslav Draganovic from Magnus Linklater.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Not available
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Some of the originals of the Dragonovic material are in the United States Army Archives, Washington and at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-school-slavonic-and-east-european-studies-library
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Revised, Feb 2002