CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Faber, Marko |
|---|---|
| Title | Forging Brotherhood: Education and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Early Socialist Croatia (1943-1952) |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes Croat-Serb inter-ethnic relations in early socialist Croatia (1943-1952) through the lens of the Communist-led education system. Inter-ethnic relations in Yugoslavia suffered a devastating blow during the campaigns of genocide and retaliatory mass murder of World War Two. The Communist Party of Yugoslavia, which came to power in 1945 on the wings of the Partisan resistance movement, had to find ways to definitively stop this cycle of violence, and assure the long-term stability of the new multi-ethnic state. In Croatia – as a federal subject of Yugoslavia – this primarily meant improving the relations between the Croat ethnic majority and the Serb ethnic minority. The Communist Party decided to use the education system in order to promote the ideals of inter-ethnic fraternity, as well the proclaimed national equality of Croats and Serbs in Croatia. In this thesis, I will determine the specific policies and reforms implemented by the Communist Party in the Croatian education system in order to promote inter-ethnic fraternization and the national equality of Serbs and Croats. Furthermore, I will analyze the reactions of the Croat and Serb populations of Croatia to the implementation of those policies by using studies of local-level events, and I will try to determine the possible sources of discontent among the two ethnic groups. Finally, I will trace the changes of Communist Party nationality policy in the education system during the given time period. |
| Supervisor | Tokić, Mate Nikola |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/faber_marko.pdf |
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