Revisionism in Croatia: The case of Franjo Tudman

Goldstein, Ivo; Goldstein, Slavko

doi:10.1080/13501670208577963

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“…In the new Croatian state, the main protagonist of public memory was the Croat nation, often wounded and victimized (Pavlaković 2014). Croatian memory politics in the 1990s were mainly concerned with justifying the striving for an independent Croatian nation state and with reconciling Croatia's problematic Second World War history, sometimes leading to quite problematic cases of revisionism with regard to Croatia's genocidal Fascist regime during the Second World War (Goldstein and Goldstein 2002;Pavlaković 2008, Sindbaek 2012. Given this situation, a narrative of the First World War which emphasized Serbian victimization and heroism in the struggle for a Yugoslav state became quite irrelevant.…”

Section: In Croatian Public Memorymentioning

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End of War or End of State? 1918 in the Public Memories of Post-Communist Croatia and Serbia

Andersen

Dedović

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This article investigates the role of 1918, the end of the First World War, and the establishment of the Yugoslav state in public memories of post-communist Croatia and Serbia. Analysing history schoolbooks within the context of major works of history and public discussion, the authors trace the developments of public memory of the end of the war and 1918. Drawing on the concepts of public memory and historical narrative, the authors focus on the ways in which history textbooks create historical narratives and on the types of lessons from the past that can be extracted from these narratives. While Serbia and Croatia have rather different patterns of First World War memory, the authors argue that both states have abandoned the Yugoslav communist narrative and now publicly commemorate 1918 as a loss of national statehood. This is somehow paradoxical, since the establishment of the South Slav State in 1918 was supposedly an outcome of the Wilsonian principle of national self-determination. In Serbia, the story of loss is packed in a fatalistic narrative of heroism and victimhood, while in Croatia the story of loss is embedded in a tale of necessary evils, which nevertheless had a positive outcome in a sovereign Croatian state.

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Section: In Croatian Public Memorymentioning

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End of War or End of State? 1918 in the Public Memories of Post-Communist Croatia and Serbia

Andersen

Dedović

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…3 With this in mind, nationalist groups consider multi-ethnic (-cultural) coexistence as threatening and obstructing the nation-building process. 4 The idea of nation-building followed the principle of 'one state=one nation=one language', 5 and regarded multilingualism as an exception. Hence, after the war in the 1990s, they demolished partisan monuments, which had inscriptions in several languages like Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian and Ukrainian.…”

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Nationalising Scorched Earth - Memory and Destruction of Monuments from Vukovar to Knin

Piasek¹

2022

Studies on National Movements

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Research has often focused on Croatian memorialisation processes in specific places like Bleiburg and Jasenovac, controversial places during and after World War II. This article employs another view and elaborates on the destruction and removal, as well as the recent restoration of monuments and reconstruction of sacred architecture. It examines current memory processes in places once in the Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991-1995), from Vukovar to Knin. It stresses the different roles between state-organised and private commemorations in these historically multi-ethnic and -religious areas. The paper addresses problems like the demolition of monuments not fitting into the state narrative and analyses various historical processes that instigated the (re-)use of revisionist and mostly politically tolerated symbols and inscriptions on monuments and sacred architecture. With attention to the latter, it specifically deals with the reconstruction of a Catholic and Christian-Orthodox church in the Lika region. The research connects historical and anthropological approaches and contributes to the interdisciplinary field of memory studies.

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Croatia and the First World War: National Forgetting in a Memorial Shatter Zone?

Andersen

Dedović

2020

Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War

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Revisionism in Croatia: The case of Franjo Tudman

Cited by 6 publications

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End of War or End of State? 1918 in the Public Memories of Post-Communist Croatia and Serbia

End of War or End of State? 1918 in the Public Memories of Post-Communist Croatia and Serbia

Nationalising Scorched Earth - Memory and Destruction of Monuments from Vukovar to Knin

Croatia and the First World War: National Forgetting in a Memorial Shatter Zone?

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