The "Encyclopaedia of Yugoslavia" (1955-1990) between Yugoslav and sub-Yugoslav nation-building

The Encyclopaedia of Yugoslavia (EJ) was the flagship project of the socialist state-sponsored Yugoslav lexicography. The first edition of the EJ was published in a Serbo-Croatian version (1955-71). but the unfinished second edition of the EJ (1980-90) was published in Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian (Latin and Cyrillic script) Cyrillic script), Macedonian, Hungarian and Albanian versions. The EJ was conceived as a means of giving the Yugoslav Yugoslav peoples a sense of common identity based on culture and history. culture and history, but at the same time preserved the sometimes contradictory task of nation-building at the level of the sub-Yugoslav federal units and the identity building of the peoples and nationalities. peoples and nationalities. How did the EJ content influence nation-building on the Yugoslav and sub-Yugoslav level; was the EJ the voice of particular nation-building political positions or prejudices; how did the nation-building concepts in the EJ shape the production of knowledge in it and how did this affect the public sphere?