Veterani kao tema istraživanja i skrb Republike Hrvatske o hrvatskim braniteljima 1991. – 2017.
Veterans as a Topic of Research in Croatian Historiography and the Republic of Croatia's Care for Croatian defenders 1991 – 2017

Summary/Abstract: Despite being frequently mentioned in the Croatian public and media, and often being the subject of political disputes, the topic of Croatian veterans from the Homeland War in post-war Croatia has so far been quite neglected and poorly academically researched, when compared to the state of research on veterans as a relevant social group in the past and present in some foreign historiographies. In its first part, this paper explains the necessity for the scientific study veterans as a topic of social history, and takes up the topic of the way veterans are discussed in recent domestic and foreign works. The second part, based on primary sources, provides an overview of how the issue of state care for veterans was resolved in the Republic of Croatia in the period from the very beginning of the Homeland War to the latest law on veterans' rights passed in 2017, with an emphasis on modifications made during the changes of government in 2000, 2004, 2011 and 2016.

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