Nenad Petrovic (writer)
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s after World War II
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and revolution
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in Yugoslavia
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Life
Petrovic was born in 1925 in ZagrebZagreb
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and graduated from high school in Belgrade
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in 1944, when he joined the nationalist resistance movement, (Chetniks
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), under Axis
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occupation.
After withdrawing through Sandzak
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and Bosnia
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in 1944 and 1945, he became an interpreter for the Yugoslav
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units serving the British Army
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in Italy
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and Germany
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. In 1947, he came to Great Britain as a Displaced Person
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and first worked as a farm hand and later as an employee in an industrial concern. He studied Political Economy
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in London
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Petrovic is active in the association Oslobodjenje (Liberation) and a member of the editorial board of the publication, Nasa Rec (Our Word) from 1958 and of the editorial board of the publishing house Nase Delo (Our Deed).
From 1963, he is secretary of the exile Committee of the Liberal International
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He was a member of Democratic Alternative
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, founded by Desimir Tošić.
He is also secretary of the Association of Serbian Writers and Artists in Exile.
Petrovic is active in the work of the Serbian Orthodox Church
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. Under the editorship of Professor Radoje Knezevic he was, from 1964 to 1974, permanent correspondent of Glas kanadskih Srba (Voice of the Canadian Serbs).
Petrovic has published in English
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in the Review of the Study Centre for Yugoslav Affairs, articles Yugoslav Communist Party Congresses since. the War and The Fall of Alexander Rankovic
Aleksandar Rankovic
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and in the Serbian language, among others, articles on Dimitrije Mitrinovic
Dimitrije Mitrinovic
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(1967), The Centenary of Lenin's Birth, Vladimir Gadinovic, Risto Radulovic, Peter Struve.
He has published the following books: The Two Faces of Jugoslav Communism (1963) and The Daughter of Marx (1973), a critical survey of the beginnings of Socialism
Socialism
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in England
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. He has contributed to the two volumes, Democratic Jugoslavia, articles entitled: "For a new social and political morality" (1967) and "The awakening of nationalism under Communist regimes" (1972); in both editions of the selected works of the Association of Serbian Writers and Artists in Exile on: "Our literature in exile" (1973) and "The latest monograph on Hilandar
Hilandar
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" (1980). In the record of Twenty years of work and political attitudes of the Association Oslobodjenje Petrovic contributed an article entitled: "In Emigration — yet independent of it."
In Belgrade
Belgrade
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he has published: Iz života londoskih političkih emigracija (From the life of the London Political emigrants) (1998) and Ogled o smislu i zabludama (Essay on Sense and Aberrations, 2001).
Nenad Petrovic resides in London
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