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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Death of Yugoslavia television documentary archive


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Death of Yugoslavia

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Death of Yugoslavia television documentary archive

Date(s): 1941, 1985-1996

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 33 boxes and A3 size folder (0. 33 cubic metres)

Name of creator(s): Brian Lapping Associates

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Death of Yugoslavia is a five part television documentary produced by Brian Lapping Associates, a London based television production company, for the BBC television and broadcast during Sep-Oct 1995. The Associate Producer of the documentary was Michael Simkin, Series Producer - Norma Percy, Producer/Director - Angus Macqueen and Paul Mitchell.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The Death of Yugoslavia archive, 1941,1985-1996, consists of interview transcripts, videotapes, transmission scripts, files, press cuttings and published material concerning the disintegration of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) during 1987-1994. It includes VHS videos of episodes 1-5 of the documentary Death of Yugoslavia, and transcripts of eighty-seven interviews, mostly uncut (though questions are sometimes omitted), with eyewitnesses the Republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (containing only the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro), who describe their experiences of the rise of nationalism, constitutional developments, civil war and ethnic conflict, and members of the international community, involved in the search for a solution.

Interviewees include government and military personnel from the highest levels of the SFRY, and officials of the European Community and the United Nations, such as Slobodan Milosevic, Chairman of Central Committee of the Serbian League of Communist, 1986-1989, President of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), 1990, President of Serbia, 1989-1992, President of Republic of Serbia, 1992-1997; Dr Mirjana Markovic, Belgrade university professor, Founder of Yugoslav United Left (JUL) and wife of Slobodan Milosevic; Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian Muslim, founding leader of Party for Democratic Action (SDA), and President of Bosnia Herzegovina, 1990-1998; Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader, head of Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) from 1990 Milan Babic, leader of Krajina Serbs; Mile-Jastreb Dedakovic, Croatian commander of Vukovar; Gen Milutin Kukanjac, Commander Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA) Second Army District based in Sarajevo, 1992; Sefer Halilovic, First Commander of the Bosnian Army; Gen Petar Gracanin, Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA), Serbian President, 1988-1989, Yugoslav Federal Interior Minister [1990]; Borislav Jovic, Serbian representative to Yugoslavia and, President of the Yugoslav Federal Presidency, 1990-1991; Milan Kucan, Slovene Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, 1986-1990, and Slovene President from 1990; Dobrica Cosic, Serb nationalist writer, President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1992-1993; Azem Vllasi, ethnic Albanian Party leader in Kosovo; Ivan Stambolic, Serbian President 1985-1986; Franjo Tudjman, first elected President of Croatia, 1990-1999 and founder of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ); Gianni De Michelis, Italian Foreign Minister, 1989-1992; Maj Gen Lewis MacKenzie, Canadian United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) Chief of Staff, Sarajevo, 1992; Larry Hollingsworth, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Officer in Bosnia; Lt Gen Sir (Hugh) Michael Rose, British Commander of United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), Bosnia, 1994-1995; Sir David Hannay, British Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), 1990-1995; Hans Dietrich Genscher, German Foreign Minister 1982-1992; Peter Galbraith, US Ambassador to Croatia, 1993-1998; Rt Hon Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Lord Carrington); Chairman of the European Community conference on Yugoslavia, 1991-1992; and Rt Hon David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen of the City of Plymouth (Lord Owen), European Community (EC) mediator and co-chairman of the EC Conference on former Yugoslavia, 1992-1995.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Predominantly English, but including material in Serbo-Croat, Slovene, French and German.

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above, with the interview transcripts and video cassettes arranged in alphabetical order by surname.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available on-line and in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

A number of the video cassettes of interviews have been retained by Brian Lapping Associates. Copies of the Survey of World Broadcasts Apr-Aug 1995, listed as deposited, have not been located.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Norma Percy, Brian Lapping Associates, Nov 1995.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Source: The Death of Yugoslavia by Laura Silber and Allan Little (Revised Edition, The Penguin Group and BBC Worldwide, London, 1996).Description compiled by Alison Field

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Civil war | Political movements
Communism | Collectivism | Political doctrines
Liberation movements | Political movements
Newly independent states | Political systems
Peacekeeping | Peace
Political conflicts | Political crises | Internal politics
Political leaders | Internal politics
War | International conflicts
Government
International relations
State security

Personal names
Babic | Milan | fl 1985-1996 | leader of the Krajina Serbs
Carrington | Peter Alexander Rupert | b 1919 | 6th Baron Carrington | British Foreign Secretary x Carrington | 6th Baron
Cosic | Dobrica | b 1921 | Serb nationalist writer and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
De Michelis | Gianni | fl 1989-1992 | Italian politician x Michelis | Gianni | De
Dedakovic | Mile-Jastreb | fl 1985-1999 | Croatian commander of Vukovar
Genscher | Hans-Dietrich | b 1927 | German Foreign Minister
Gracanin | Petar | b 1923 | President of Serbia
Halilovic | Sefer | b 1952 | First Commander of the Bosnian Army
Hannay | Sir | David Hugh Alexander | b 1935 | diplomat
Izetbegovic | Alija | b 1925 | President of Bosnia Herzegovina
Jovic | Bosislav | fl 1990-1991 | President of the Yugoslav Federal Presidency
Karadzic | Radovan | b 1945 | Bosnian Serb leader
Kucan | Milan | b 1941 | President of the Republic of Slovenia
Kukanjac | Milutin | fl 1992 | General, Yugoslav Peoples' Army
MacKenzie | Lewis | fl 1960-2002 | Major General | Commander UN Protection Force, Sarajevo, 1992
Markovic | Mirjana | b 1942 | founder of Yugoslav United Left (JUL) and wife of Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic | Slobodan | b 1941 | President of Serbia
Owen | David Anthony Llewellyn | b 1938 | Baron Owen of the City of Plymouth | politician x Owen of the City of Plymouth | Baron
Rose | Sir | Hugh Michael | b 1940 | Knight | General
Stambolic | Ivan | 1936- ? 2000 | President of Serbia
Tudjman | Franjo | b 1922 | President of Croatia
Vllasi | Azem | b 1948 | ethnic Albanian Party leader in Kosovo

Corporate names
UNHCR | United Nations High Commission for Refugees x United Nations High Commission for Refugees
UNPROFOR | United Nations Protection Force x United Nations Protection Force

Places
Belgrade | Serbia | Yugoslavia | Eastern Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Eastern Europe
Croatia | Eastern Europe
Montenegro | Yugoslavia | Eastern Europe
Slovenia | Eastern Europe
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | Eastern Europe