Volume 21 No. 3 (2026): July

- EDITOR’S MESSAGE

Spirit of Bosnia has been publishing quarterly online since 2006. Each issue disseminates scholarly research and writing on the history, politics, and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to honor and preserve the long-standing traditions of social and civil order that created Bosnia’s heritage. The journal publishes works of fiction and non-fiction reflective of this mission. According to Google Analytics, the journal receives  []

- “ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE, ME LUVLY TEACHER, I BELIEVE IN YOU” — THE ROLE AND THE POSITION OF THE PEOPLE’S (PROGRESSIVE) TEACHER IN THE CRUCIAL YEARS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SOCIALIST SOCIETY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

From THE LOST REVOLUTION – WOMEN’S ANTIFASCIST FRONT BETWEEN MYTH AND FORGETTING, edited by: Andreja Dugandžić and Tijana Okić   Introduction Early debates on the invisibility of women in Yugoslav history were initiated as late as the mid-1980s, and the greatest contribution to the promotion and strengthening of feminist historical research of autonomous women’s organisations and associations was made by  []

- THE SACRIFICIAL OFFERING

“Mum, Bela says she is going to send some money for Eid. Dragan gave it her specially to send to you.” “Tell her I don’t give a shit about his money. I’m supposed to use Serb money to sacrifice a ram, now, am I? Not a chance. Not if it means never being able to sacrifice again. Tell her he  []

- A LEXICON OF GREAT HISTORICAL MOMENTS

I came to live with Dunja, my uncle’s daughter, when I was six years old, after my mum died.  When my stepfather’s new wife and her son wanted to send me to an orphanage a month after mum’s death, I ran away from home. On the bottom of the base of the telephone, my neighbour found Dunja’s father’s number which  []