Michael Boro Petrovich

Michael Boro Petrovich (Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 18 October 1922 - Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 28 March 1989[1]) was a second generation Serbian American, who became a professor, educator, scholar, translator and author of numorous political and historical works.[2] He was one of the founding fathers of postwar "Slavic and East European studies" across North America.[3]

Biography

Michael Petrovich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 18 October 1922 to Serbian Orthodox priest Boro Petrovich and Croatian-born Anne Marie Petrovich (née Roper).[4] Michael Boro Petrovich graduated from Kansas City Junior College in Kansas in 1941. Two years later, he received his bachelor's degree from Western Reserve University, his master's degree in 1947, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1955, all from Columbia University.

World War II

During World War II (between 1943 and 1945), he was an officer in the OSS,[1] along with other Serbian Americans, namely Eli Popovich (of the Popovich Brothers of Chicago fame), George Musulin, George Vujnovich, Michael Rajacich, Nick Lalich, and others who readily volunteered to fight Hitler's Nazis. Petrovich was a member of the Independent Yugoslavia and the Allies' Mission to Josip Broz Tito in Belgrade in 1945. The relationship between the British and American intelligence and special operations services was ambiguous in their support of the Old Order (Kingdom of Yugoslavia). Later, Petrovich learned that under the terms of the London Agreement signed in June 1942, all Office of Strategic Services (OSS) missions[3] in Europe were under the command of SOE and not OSS as it was initially believed. With the help of the Allied Powers, Tito went on to usurp the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the war and even attempted to expand territorial claims into Trieste, Italy, by ignoring the Armistice of Cassibile and forcing the creation of the Free Territory of Trieste[5] under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council.

Post-War Career

Petrovich's academic career began as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1950 to 1953. There he was tenured as assistant professor from 1953 to 1956; associate professor from 1956 to 1960; Evjue-Bascom Professor from 1982 to 1988; and professor emeritus from 1988. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1956, and a visiting professor at Harvard University in 1957. He also worked closely in collaboration with publisher William Jovanovich of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Drenka Willen on many academic and literary projects from the 1950s to 1980s. He was a member of several scholarly societies and associations.

In 1987, he was diagnosed as suffering from terminal cancer.[3] In 1988, during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), held in Honolulu, he was unable to attend. However, he received the achievement award by mail. A few months later, he died on 28 March 1989, aged 67.[3]

Works

  • "America and Russia" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by University of Wisconsin, 1951[6]
  • "The Soviet Union" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by Ginn, Boston, 1970[7]
  • "Conversations with Stalin" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich[8]
  • "Land Without Justice" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1956
  • "Petar II Petrović-Njegoš" by Milovan Djilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966[9]
  • "Wartime" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1977[10]
  • "A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918" by Michael Boro Petrovich. Two volume set published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1976[11]
  • "The Emergence of Russian Panslavism, 1856-1870" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1956[12]
  • "Of Prisons and Ideas" by Milovan Djilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986[13]
  • "Yugoslavia: A Bibliographic Guide", published: 1974[14]
  • "World Cultures" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1995;[15]
  • "The Human Achievement" by Philip D. Curtin, Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1967[16]

References

  1. ^ a b Shashko, Philip (1990). "In memoriam: Professor Michael Boro Petrovich (1922—1989)". Études Balkaniques (1): 146–148.
  2. ^ Roberts, Elizabeth (2007). Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4601-6.
  3. ^ a b c d Curran, Michael W. (1989). "News of the Profession". Slavic Review. 48 (4): 721–722. doi:10.1017/S0037677900062021.
  4. ^ "Michael Boro Petrovich". www.goodreads.com.
  5. ^ Italian: Territorio libero di Trieste; Slovene: Svobodno tržaško ozemlje; Croatian: Slobodni teritorij Trsta; Serbian: Cлободна Територија Трста; Triestine Venetian: Teritorio Libero de Trieste
  6. ^ Petrovich, Michael Boro (1951). America and Russia.
  7. ^ The Soviet Union. A Ginn study in depth. 1970.
  8. ^ Djilas, Milovan (1962). Conversations with Stalin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0156225913. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  9. ^ https://search.worldcat.org/title/Njegos-:-poet-prince-bishop/oclc/1416228007
  10. ^ Dragnich, Alex N. (March 1979). "Wartime. By Milovan Djilas. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. (New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Pp. X + 470. $14.95.)". American Political Science Review. 73 (1): 273–274. doi:10.2307/1954809. JSTOR 1954809.
  11. ^ Stokes, Gale (December 1977). "A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918, 2 vols. By Michael Boro Petrovich. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Vol. 1: Xx, 359 pp. + 8 pp. Plates. Maps. Vol. 2: Xi, 372 pp. (Pp. 360-731) + 8 pp. Plates. Maps. $49.50 for 2-vol. Boxed set". Slavic Review. 36 (4): 707–709. doi:10.2307/2495300. JSTOR 2495300.
  12. ^ Petrovich, Michael Boro (1956). The Emergence of Russian Panslavism 1856–1870. doi:10.7312/petr93420. ISBN 9780231893619. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  13. ^ Of Prisons and Ideas. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1986. ISBN 9780151679799.
  14. ^ https://books.google.ca/books/about/Yugoslavia.html?id=OTgunO5JM3kC&redir_esc=y
  15. ^ https://www.abebooks.com/9780382321801/World-Cultures-Petrovich-Michael-Roberts-0382321804/plp
  16. ^ "The human achievement".
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