ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945

The paper analyses the reasons why Freemasonry could not be reactivated in 1945-47 in communist Yugoslavia, unlike in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It gives insights into the freemasonic circles that operated in Belgrade in the 1950s and 1960s, and the activities of the Supreme Council of Yugoslavia i...

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Main Author: Slobodan G. Markovich
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Published: Institut za Savremenu Istoriju 2025-08-01
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Online Access:https://istorija20veka.rs/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025_2-5_mar_363-386.pdf
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description The paper analyses the reasons why Freemasonry could not be reactivated in 1945-47 in communist Yugoslavia, unlike in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It gives insights into the freemasonic circles that operated in Belgrade in the 1950s and 1960s, and the activities of the Supreme Council of Yugoslavia in Exile. It also explains how the secret services of communist Yugoslavia and publicists in the 1980s used very similar explanations on Freemasonry as anti-Masonic propaganda by clerical and pro-Nazi authors in 1926–1944.
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spelling doaj-art-5e49c844c3964436829c4f1ba5f556722025-08-20T03:34:17ZdeuInstitut za Savremenu IstorijuIstorija 20. Veka0352-31602560-36472025-08-01432/202536338610.29362/ist20veka.2025.2.mar.363-386ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945Slobodan G. Markovich0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3784-156XFaculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Republic of SerbiaThe paper analyses the reasons why Freemasonry could not be reactivated in 1945-47 in communist Yugoslavia, unlike in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It gives insights into the freemasonic circles that operated in Belgrade in the 1950s and 1960s, and the activities of the Supreme Council of Yugoslavia in Exile. It also explains how the secret services of communist Yugoslavia and publicists in the 1980s used very similar explanations on Freemasonry as anti-Masonic propaganda by clerical and pro-Nazi authors in 1926–1944.https://istorija20veka.rs/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025_2-5_mar_363-386.pdfyugoslav freemasonryanti-masonic propagandayugoslav secret services
spellingShingle Slobodan G. Markovich
ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945
Istorija 20. Veka
yugoslav freemasonry
anti-masonic propaganda
yugoslav secret services
title ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945
title_full ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945
title_fullStr ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945
title_full_unstemmed ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945
title_short ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES TO FREEMASONRY IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1945
title_sort attitudes of yugoslav authorities to freemasonry in yugoslavia since 1945
topic yugoslav freemasonry
anti-masonic propaganda
yugoslav secret services
url https://istorija20veka.rs/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025_2-5_mar_363-386.pdf
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