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<jats:p>The publication of this volume was supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia through the project “Pope Pius XII and the Challenge of Totalitarianism in Yugoslavia, 1941–1958”, grant No. 7749803, within the program IDEAS (2022-2024). This edited volume is the result of the project “Pope Pius XII and the Challenge of Totalitarianism in Yugoslavia, 1941–1958”, (acronym: Polity), whose principal investiga- tor is Vojislav G. Pavlović. The editor would like to express his gratitude to the institutions that have participated in the project, the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, and the Institute for Recent history of Serbia. The editor would also like to extend his gratitude to the contributors to this volume who are also members of the project team, for their original and valuable research.</jats:p>