Elena Guskova is one of the scholars who blame the Western countries not only for breakup of Yugoslavia but also for the violence which accompanied it.

[3] Jelena Jurjevna Guskova née Derjabina was born on 23 September 1949 in Moscow.

At the same faculty, she received her master's degree in the thesis on the socio-economic development of Serbia in the middle of the 19th century.

There, in 1990, she defended her doctoral dissertation on socio-political organizations and the self-governing system of the SFRY.

In 1994, she worked as a scientific expert on the Balkans at the UN peacekeeping headquarters in the former Yugoslavia in Zagreb.