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About Laslo Sekelj
- Laslo Sekelj (4 August 1949 – 29 November 2001) born in Subotica, Yugoslavia. Laslo Sekelj studied philosophy, political science, and sociology at the Universities of Belgrade, Berlin, and Zagreb.
- He received his Ph.D.
- in sociology at the University of Zagreb (1983).
- He published a number of studies and articles on inter-ethnic tensions and Jewish identity in Yugoslavia.
- For many years he was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade.
- As a member of the dissident "Praxis" group he was denied the right to teach. He specialized in the study of Yugoslav self-management.
- In his major book, published in English: "Yugoslavia: the Process of Disintegration", he analyzed the different stages in the development of self-management and its demise. Another area of his specialization was the study of anarchism. He directed a long-term project devoted to comparative aspects of the transformation process of the formerly Communist European countries. In recent years he was a senior research fellow of the Belgrade Institute for European Studies, and spent several years as a Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow and Guest-Professor at the University of Göttingen.
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