ROUND TABLE IN HONOR OF DR. NOVICA RAKOČEVIĆ




ROUND TABLE IN HONOR OF DR. NOVICA RAKOČEVIĆ

A round table dedicated to the renowned historian Dr. Novica Rakočević (1927–1998) will be held in the ceremonial hall of the Historical Institute of the University of Montenegro on Tuesday, October 28 at 5 p.m. Among those who will speak about the life and work of Novica Rakočević are Dr. Žarko Leković and M.A. Filip Vučetić. The event will be opened by the director of the Historical Institute of the University of Montenegro, Dr. Radenko Šćekić. The book “The Era of Prince and King Nikola 1878–1918”, published posthumously, will also be presented.

Novica Rakočević was one of the leading experts on the political history of the Principality of Montenegro (1852–1910) and the Kingdom of Montenegro (1910–1918), as well as one of the most knowledgeable scholars on the life and work of Montenegrin Prince and King Nikola Petrović-Njegoš (1860–1918). He participated in the People’s Liberation Struggle starting in 1943. After the war, he chose to study history and graduated in 1952 from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He worked as a history teacher in Kolašin, Kotor, and Bijelo Polje. Beginning in 1959, he worked at the Historical Institute in Podgorica. He earned his PhD in 1965 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade with a dissertation titled "Montenegro under Austro-Hungarian Occupation 1916–1918."

He published numerous scholarly papers and articles in various journals and collections, and also authored several major monographic studies on the history of Montenegro in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, including: “Montenegro and Austria-Hungary”, “Montenegro in the First World War”, “Political Relations Between Montenegro and Serbia 1903–1918”, and “The Montenegrin National Assembly 1906–1914.”

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