Draft:Michael Boro Petrovich

Michael Petrovich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 18 October 1922 to Father Boro (Serbian Orthodox Church) and Anne Marie (née Roper) Petrovich. 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, both from Columbia University. During World War II (between 1943 and 1945) he was an officer in the OSS along with Eli Popovich (of the Popovich Brothers of Chicago fame), George Musulin, George Vujnovich, Michael Rajacich, Nick Lalich, and other American Serbs who readilly volunteered to fight the 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). Afterwards, Petrovich learned that under the terms of the London Agreement signed in June 1942, all Office of Strategic Services (OSS) missions in Europe were under the command of SOE and not OSS as it was initially believed. With the help of the British, 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.

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.

Many academic achievements followed, and in 1987, he was diagnosed as suffering from terminal cancer. 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, but received the coveted achievement award. A few months later, he died on 28 March 1989, aged 67.

• Fellow of the Russian Research Center (Harvard University fellow 1957)
• American Historical Association
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (founder, board directors 1953-1954)
• American Association for the Advancement Southeast European Studies
• American Council of Learned Societies (joint committee Slavic studies 1969-1971
• Director of Eastern European History project 1973-1979)
• Clubs: Rotary and Literary (Madison)

• William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, presented by University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1957
• Recipient of the E. Harris Harbison Award for excellence in teaching given by the Danforth Foundation, 1967
• Recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Award of Achivement, 1988

• "America and Russia" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by University of Wisconsin, 1951Cite book|url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/America_and_Russia/QHbNjgEACAAJ?hl=en|title = America and Russia|year = 1951;
• "The Soviet Union" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by Ginn, Boston, 1970{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006044600 | title=The Soviet Union | series=A Ginn study in depth | date=1970 }};
• "Conversations with Stalin" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt Brace JovanovichCite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM4JcdHwXy8C&dq=Milovan+Djilas%3A+Conversations+with+Stalin&pg=PA3|title = Conversations with Stalin|isbn = 0156225913|last1 = Djilas|first1 = Milovan|year = 1962;
• "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, 1966Cite web|url=https://www.getbookfast.com/now/njego-poet-prince-bishop-introduction-and-translation-by-michael-b-petrovich/|title = [PDF] Njego Poet Prince Bishop Introduction and Translation by Michael B Petrovich Download eBook Full – PDF Download Get Book Fast;
• "Wartime" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1977Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/wartime-by-milovan-djilas-translated-by-michael-b-petrovich-new-york-and-london-harcourt-brace-jovanovich-1977-pp-x-470-1495/07D9E3B31F1D737DF1EAB8B41F79CFE5|doi=10.2307/1954809|title=Wartime. By Milovan Djilas. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. (New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Pp. X + 470. $14.95.)|journal=American Political Science Review|date=March 1979|volume=73|issue=1|pages=273–274|last1=Dragnich|first1=Alex N.;
• "A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918" by Michael Boro Petrovich. Two volume set published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1976Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/history-of-modern-serbia-18041918-2-vols-by-petrovich-michael-boro-new-york-and-london-harcourt-brace-jovanovich-1976-vol-1-xx-359-pp-8-pp-plates-maps-vol-2-xi-372-pp-pp-360731-8-pp-plates-maps-4950-for-2vol-boxed-set/D623EE6AD780522DCB970D0943B41734|doi=10.2307/2495300|title=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|journal=Slavic Review|date=December 1977|volume=36|issue=4|pages=707–709|last1=Stokes|first1=Gale;
• "The Emergence of Russian Panslavism, 1856-1870" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1956Cite book|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/petr93420/html|doi = 10.7312/petr93420|title = The Emergence of Russian Panslavism 1856–1870|year = 1956|last1 = Petrovich|first1 = Michael Boro|isbn = 9780231893619;
• "Of Prisons and Ideas" by Milovan Djilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986Cite book|url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Of_Prisons_and_Ideas/oS8FAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Prisons+and+Ideas+by+Milovan+Djilas&dq=Prisons+and+Ideas+by+Milovan+Djilas&printsec=frontcover|isbn = 9780151679799|title = Of Prisons and Ideas|year = 1986|publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich;
• "Yugoslavia: A Bibliographic Guide", published: 1974Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/746379.Michael_Boro_Petrovich|title = Michael Boro Petrovich;
• "World Cultures" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1995Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/746379.Michael_Boro_Petrovich|title = Michael Boro Petrovich;
• "The Human Achievement" by Philip D. Curtin, Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1967Cite web|url=https://weticezetunu.prideofaberdeenawards.com/the-human-achievement-book-235sm.php|title = The human achievement.

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