Život mladih u poratnom Zagrebu 1945. - 1953.
LIFE OF YOUTH IN POST-WAR ZAGREB (1945 – 1953)

Summary/Abstract: This brief review of youth life in the post-war Zagreb presents the basic processes which were then taking place in the state and society as well. The paper describes the life of young people, mainly students and workers in the post-war Zagreb, through the actions of the communist youth organisations – Communist Youth Association of Yugoslavia, United League of Croatian Antifascist Youth and National Youth of Croatia as the transmission of the Communist Party. The topics of this research include the role and status of young people in the process of renovation and reconstruction through youth labour actions, industrialisation as „working class youth“, a project of literacy and education through cultural, educational and „ideological“ work, as well as their role in dealing with government opponents of the regime, members of the Inform Bureau and other „social misfits behaviour“ of young people. Young people had been a part of all major processes in the country and presented themselves as the executors of the party politics through the membership or the position in the Communist Party and youth organisations, and the objects of implementing given directives. While the young people, who were a part of the ruling system through these organisations, had therefore been to some extent privileged, those who had been opposing the system were being punished and their life prospects had been considerably worse. Although the majority of youth in Zagreb were members of youth organisations, many of them were really passive there, and they entered the organisation by fiat and opportunism.

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