Mihajlov, Mihajlo

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MIHAJLOV, Mihajlo

MIHAJLOV, Mihajlo. American (born Yugoslavia), b. 1934. Genres: Politics/Government, Essays, Philosophy, Civil liberties/Human rights, International relations/Current affairs. Career: Social and literary critic, educator, lecturer, translator, and writer. Free-lance writer and translator for Yugoslavian periodicals, radio, and television, 1962-63; Zagreb University, Zadar, Croatia, Yugoslavia, assistant professor of modern Russian literature, 1963-65; free-lance writer for western press, 1965-66 and 1970-74; imprisoned in Yugoslavia by the Josip Broz (Tito) government, 1966-70 and 1974-77; Radio Free Europe, Research Analysis Division, Munich, West Germany, special analyst for ideological and intellectual events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1985-86; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., Washington, D.C., commentator on intellectual and ideological affairs, 1986- 94; George Washington University, senior fellow program on transitions to democracy at Elliott School of Intl Affairs, 1994. Visiting professor: Yale University, 1980-81, University of Virginia, 1982-83, Ohio State University, 1983-84, University Gesamthochschule Siegen, 1984-, University of Glasgow, 1985. Guest lecturer at social, political, and cultural conventions and at colleges and universities in the United States and Europe. Publications: (ed. and contrib.) Gorki Stories, 1964; Moscow Summer, 1965; Russian Themes, 1968; Underground Notes (essays), 1976, rev. ed., 1982; Unscientific Thoughts, 1979; Homeland in Freedom, 1994. Author of pamphlets, papers, and articles. Address: 1613 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001-2405, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]; [email protected]