Vasilije Krestić
{{Short description|Serbian historian}}
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Vasilije Krestić ({{lang-sr-cyr|Василије Крестић}}; born 20 July 1932) is a Serbian historian and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Biography
As a historian, he focuses on the history of the Serbs of the Habsburg monarchy. In his early career, Krestić wrote about the history of Croatia before and after the Nagodba of 1868, with special reference to the Serbs of Croatia and in Hungary. He has written numerous articles on related subjects.
In the mid-1980s Krestić became involved in the politics of nationalist opposition to communism in Serbia. He became a voice of discontent regarding the status of the Serbs of Croatia and helped to revive Serbian nationalism. He was one of the leading authors of the 1986 Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which was a founding document in the creation of the Serbian nationalist movement of the 1980s. Krestić's main contribution was in the sections that described the genocide against Serbs perpetrated by the Croatian fascist Ustasha in the Independent State of Croatia. Nationalist professors led by Krestić removed Dr. Drago Roksandić from the University of Belgrade in 1989, causing nine professors to publish an open letter in defence of Roksandić in the March 1990 issue of The New York Review of Books.Andrzej Walicki, Daniel Chirot, Gale Stokes, Ivan Szelenyi, Ivo Banac, Jan T. Gross, Katherine Verdery, Norman Naimark, Tony Judt: Fired in Belgrade. The New York Review of Books, Volume 37, Number 5 - March 29, 1990. Available online at [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/3677 nybooks.com]. Retrieved 21 April 2007. In 1995, Krestić published a defense of the Memorandum, with Kosta Mihailović, another of the Memorandum's original authors. Krestić was also active in the defense of Slobodan Milošević before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
His son Petar Krestić is also prominent Serbian historian.
Major works
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Хрватско-угарска нагодба 1868. године|year=1969|location=Београд|publisher=САНУ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5pIOAQAAIAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Историја српске штампе у Угарској 1791-1914|year=1980|location=Нови Сад|publisher=Матица српска|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gBlAAAAMAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|chapter=Срби у Хабсбуршкој Монархији 1849-1868|title=Историја српског народа|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uL1BAAAAYAAJ|volume=књ. 5, св. 2|year=1981|location=Београд|publisher=Српска књижевна задруга|pages=107–150}}
- {{Cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Srpsko-hrvatski odnosi i jugoslovenska ideja 1860-1873: Studije i članci|year=1983|location=Beograd|publisher=Narodna knjiga|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kS5AAAAIAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Srpsko-hrvatski odnosi i jugoslovenska ideja u drugoj polovini XIX veka|year=1988|location=Beograd|publisher=Nova knjiga|isbn=9788673350479|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpUMAAAAIAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Историја Срба у Хрватској и Славонији 1848-1914|year=1991|location=Београд|publisher=Политика|isbn=9788676070404|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5pkMAAAAIAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=History of the Serbs in Croatia and Slavonia 1848-1914|year=1997|location=Belgrade|publisher=BIGZ|isbn=9788613008880|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZRpAAAAMAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Из историје Срба и српско-хрватских односа: Студије, чланци, расправе и есеји|year=1994|location=Београд|publisher=БИГЗ|isbn=9788613007548|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGYoAAAAMAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Грађа о Србима у Хрватској и Славонији (1848-1914)|volume=1|year=1995|location=Београд|publisher=БИГЗ|isbn=9788613008156|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XTzLSQAACAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Грађа о Србима у Хрватској и Славонији (1848-1914)|volume=2|year=1995|location=Београд|publisher=БИГЗ|isbn=9788613008156|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XTzLSQAACAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Геноцидом до Велике Хрватске|year=1998|location=Нови Сад-Београд|publisher=Матица српска, Архив Србије|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vzEoAEACAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Through Genocide to a Greater Croatia|year=1998|location=Belgrad|publisher=BIGZ|isbn=9788613009108|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bH8tAQAAIAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=La grande Croatie: Le génocide comme projet politique|year=2001|location=Lausanne|publisher=L'Age d'Homme|isbn=9782825113950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=weZtUaL3JNEC}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Бискуп Штросмајер у светлу нових извора|year=2001|location=Београд|publisher=САНУ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Бискуп Штросмајер: Хрват, великохрват или Југословен|year=2006|location=Јагодина|publisher=Гамбит}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Срби у Угарској 1790-1918|year=2013|location=Нови Сад|publisher=Матица српска}}
- {{Cite book|last=Krestić|first=Vasilije|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|chapter=The Serbs in Hungary during the First World War|title=The Serbs and the First World War 1914-1918|year=2015|location=Belgrade|publisher=Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts|pages=43–56|isbn=9788670256590|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gUjRjwEACAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|last=Крестић|first=Василије|author-link=Vasilije Krestić|title=Великохрватске претензије на Војводину, Босну и Херцеговину|year=2017|location=Београд|publisher=САНУ}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Крестић|first1=Василије|authorlink1=Vasilije Krestić|last2=Радојевић|first2=Мира|authorlink2=Mira Radojević|title=Јасеновац|year=2017|location=Београд|publisher=САНУ}}
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