CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Kevo, Tomislav |
|---|---|
| Title | The Image of socialist Yugoslavia in the Croatian historiography |
| Summary | Collapse of the socialism pushed political communities to reframe their past in order to secure the feeling of their continuity. Those reshaped image of the socialist past is one of the niches in which the Zeitgeist of the country can be caught in the period of great changes and intensive nation-building policies. I would like to examine how the image of Yugoslavia is re-created in the Croatian historiography from the 1990s onward, what it consists of and how it evolved throughout time. My assumption is that those different modes of the representations of the socialist past in the contemporary Croatian historiography are reflecting the different phases through which Croatian society went through, but more importantly - they are a reflection of the Franjo Tuđman's regime's metanarrative which was imposed in the 1990's through various policies. Political crisis, eruption of the war and intensive nation-building processes had an effect on the tone of narration on Yugoslavia, but so did democratic changes in the 2000 and the subsequent "normalization" of the past too. Moreover, I argue that Croatian historiography tends to reflect the basic features of the Croatian nationalism on the 1990's and exclusivist conception of the national identity. Focal points of Franjo Tuđman's legacy - "thousand years old dream", "all-Croat national reconciliation", notion of belonging to the West, Yugoslavia as "Balkan kidnapping" and the formation of the Croatian nation-state as a culmination of the history are the basic tropes which are influencing the historiography |
| Supervisor | Trencsenyi, Balazs & Janowski, Maciej |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/kevo_tomislav.pdf |
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