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February 27, 2002.

Promotion “Minutes of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1929-1931"
“Arhiv” – A Review of the Archives of Yugoslavia
Exhibition “Posters, leaflets, advertisements and maps in the fonds and collections of the Archives of Yugoslavia, 1918-1941”, February 27th 2002 – March 27th 2002.

 
  
 
Minutes of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1929-1931, prepared by professor Ljubodrag Dimic, PHD, professor Nikola Zutic, PHD, Blagoje Isailovic, published in January 2002. This publication, which comprises 121 minutes presented in their full extent, illustrates a particular period of the Yugoslav State when the parliament and the political parties were suspended from their normal activities. These documents have never been published before, neither in fragments nor in extenso. Their appearance will contribute greatly to the scientific research and the history of the Yugoslav State. The publication is composed of Introductory Study, Minutes, List of Laws and Regulatory Texts adopted by the Council of Ministers in the period 1929-1931, Indices of the most important subjects and issues discussed by the members on the Ministerial sessions and the Biographies of the members of the Yugoslav Governments since 1919 till 1931.
    
 
   
Arhiv, Review of the Archives of Yugoslavia, Year II, No.2), 2001; The new edition of Arhiv, the Review of the Archives of Yugoslavia, appeared, contributing to the archival theory and practice in Yugoslavia. Readers may consult many articles which are dealing with the archival fonds, administrative history of the institutions that generated those fonds while being in existence during the duration of the two Yugoslav States, documents and presentations of the distinguished studies on the historical issues published recently. 
The Editorial Board encourages the authors to cooperate and invites them to submit reports and short presentations from the international archival or historiography gatherings and theoretical essays. The dead time for submitting the papers is September 2002 and e-mail is mailto:arhiv@gov.yu .
    
 
The exhibition of the printed materials displays the ways Yugoslav political and cultural entities communicated with the public opinion, the ways they expressed their political positions and advertized the cultural and other events in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. This special kind of documents show very vividly that political parties used every means to present their results accomplished and their ideas in a clear, visualized, suggestive and declarative “language”, with scetches, graphics, statistics, even folk and traditional poems. Political posters usually conveyed messages directed to the potential voters and consumers of the cultural events, to all social classes, workers or peasants.
Fourteeen of selected documents can be reviewed in extenso.