The Yugoslav historiography up to the 1980s

Yugoslav historiography after World War II was formed by the collection of eight national historiographies, it does not represent an organic whole. In spite of that it was able to fulfill common projects. The most significant was the publication History of Nations in Yugoslavia which was published in two volumes. But Yugoslav historians have not been able to find an agreement about the third volume which should have included the 19th and 20th centuries. Post-war Yugoslav historiography includes a variety of schools, or even classical historical schools. The Marxist school, which at the beginning imitated the Soviet model, prevailed. Due to the dispute with Informburo and due to the fact that Yugoslavia opened towards the world, the Yugoslav Marxist historiography was closer to western historic schools than to Marxist historiography of the eastern European states.