Publisher: Hrvatski institut za povijest

Croats and Crusaders

Hrvati i križari

Author(s): Krešimir Kužić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Crusaders; Catholic church; crusades; Synod of Clermont; Fifth crusade; King Andrew II; King Zvonimir; Holy Land;

The introductory chapter gives a theoretical outline of the term "crusades". This term was only introduced by the historians during the 19th century. Historians, depending of their national background, also gave different data on the total number of crusades. The author gives his methodological model for the research of crusades, dividing them according to the theologic and geographic terms of reference. It is important to distinguish whether crusades were "contra paganos" or "contra haereticos et schismaticos" and geographic position of war operations is equally important. If we take these elements into account, it is not easy to define each crusade. Difference between European centre and peripheral aereas must also be taken into account. All communities which possesed two vital elements - religious and political - gave continuous support to the crusades' idea. Therefore they were considered to belong to the centre of Europe (southern Italy under Norman control, Normandy province in France and Frisia). All other communities were considered peripheral.

Home Guard of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945)

Ustroj kopnene vojske domobranstva Nezavisne države Hrvatske, 1941-1945

Author(s): Nikica Barić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Independent State of Croatia; Ustasha; NDH; Ante Pavelić; Home Guard; Domobranstvo; Ustasha milita; Ustasha military schools; World War II; partisans; Croatian Home Guard

Home Guard (Domobranstvo) was the regular army of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), which was established in April 1941 after the Axis attack on Kingdom of Yugoslavia. NDH was ruled by the extreme right wing Ustasha movement headed by Ante Pavelić and its territory consisted of Croatia, Slavonia, Syrmia, Dalmatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hungarians occupied and annexed Međimurje and Italians annexed parts of Croatian coast. A demarcation line divided NDH in German and Italian spheres of influence. Alongside with Home Guard, Ustasha militia was established as a military wing of the ruling Ustasha movement. Although Home Guard had air forces and navy, its ground forces were the most numerous and the most important. Tradition of the Croatian units of the Royal Hungarian Home Guard from the Austro-Hungarian Empire was often evoked after the establishment of NDH. Some Croats who were former Austro-Hungarian officers were also included in the Home Guard. Nevertheless, the basis for the formation of Home Guard were Croat and Bosnian Moslem officers and conscripts who had previously served in the royal Yugoslav army. The paramilitary units of the Croatian Peasant Party, the leading Croatian political party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, played an important role immediately after the proclamation of NDH. Elements of this para-military organization took part in the disarmement of the Yugoslav units. In late April 1941 one of its detachments was sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina to establish Croatian military organization in that area. Nevertheless, Ustasha were distrustful of this organization and it was soon abolished [...]

Vlachs in the Historiography

Vlasi u historiografiji

Author(s): Zef Mirdita / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Vlachs; Balkans; Cincars; historiography; Byzantium Empire; Aromanians

Much has been written on and discussed about the Balkan nation of Vlachs. Despite that, they have remained a historical mystery of the Mediterranean region and even wider. The reason for this is the fact that Vlachs (also called Cincars) do not have a defined ethnic and political area. They also do not have their particular cultural, educational and spiritual institutions. Historical research of Vlachs gave often conflicting results and these researches are the subject of this book. The author has treated the subject chronologically because Vlachs appeared very early in the multiethnic region of Balkan. Accordingly the book is divided into following chapters: “Vlachs in the works of Byzantine writers”, “Vlachs in the Turkish historiography”, “Vlachs in the medieval Latin chronicles, Imperial and Papal letters”. The author has also made a general cultural and geographical division - Vlachs in Balkan historiographies and Vlachs in Western historiographies including, as a separate chapter, Vlachs in Russian historiography.

Ivan Stojković and his Epoch

Ivan Stojković i njegovo doba

Author(s): Robert Holjevac / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Ivan Stojković; Church; Dubrovnik; ecclesiology; conciliarism; Hussitism; Tsargrad

Ivan Stojković (ca. 1395-1443) was an extraordinary diplomat, multidisciplinary scientist .He was the first among catholic scholars who has written a tractate about the Church, an essay about ecumenical synods and a Biblical hermeneutics.

Bogoslav Šulek (1816-1895) and His Time

Bogoslav Šulek (1816.-1895.) i njegovo doba

Author(s): Tomislav Markus / Language(s): Croatian

Poput mnogih drugih ljudi u XIX. stoljeću Bogoslav Šulek bio je izrazito svestran čovjek. Djelovao je prije afirmacije uske specijalizacije kao jedino «legitimnog» načina znanstvenog istraživanja. Pisao je o mnogim stvarima, od politike do botanike, od fizike i kemije do šumarstva, koje danas izgledaju bez međusobne veze. Smatram da je je uska specijalizacija učinila puno više štete nego koristi i da pravo znanstveno istraživanje treba biti interdisciplinarno, ne samo unutar humanističkih područja, već i uz njihovo povezivanje s naturalističkim – posebno biološkim i ekološkim – disciplinama. No, danas je jednostavno nemoguće ostvariti svestranost kakva je još bila moguća u XIX. stoljeću, posebno ako se želi izbjeći površnost i dilentatizam. Stoga je i ova monografija nejednaka u obradi pojedinih tema. Detaljnije su analizirana ona područja Šulekove djelatnosti s kojima je autor, po svojem obrazovanju odnosno povijesnim istraživanjima, familijarniji. To se, ponajprije, odnosi na Šulekovu političku djelatnost, odnosno njegove političke članke u novinskoj periodici. Detaljnije su obrađena i njegova sociološka shvaćanja, kao i tumačenja novih prirodo-znanstvenih teorija, posebno teorije evolucije. Kod nekih drugih tema, poput jezika ili botanike, morao sam se više oslanjati na literaturu. Svakako, i ovdje sam nastojao uzeti u obzir izvorne Šulekove stavove. Iz istog razloga kritičke su primjedbe navedene kod onih područja, kod kojih se osjećam kompetentnim da ih iznesem.

Marča Bishoprie

Marčanska biskupija

Author(s): Zlatko Kudelić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Gabrijel Mijakić; Catholic Church; Svidnica; Vlachs; Greek Catholic (Uniate) Dioecese of Marča; Orthodox Christianity; Ottoman-Habsburg War; Patriarch of Peć

The Greek Catholic (Uniate) Dioecese of Marča (called “Svidnica” by the Vienna Court and “Platearum” by the Roman Curia) was established in 1611, when Greek Catholic Bishop Simeon Vratanja was consecrated in Rome. He assumed obligation to unite Orthodox frontiersmen (Vlachs) of the Croatian and Slavonian Military Border and other Orthodox Christians in the Hungarian- Croatian Kingdom with the Catholic Church. In order to become a Greek Catholic or Uniate bishop, Simeon had to accept decrees issued by the Council of Trent, and especially to recognize the primacy of the Roman pope, the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, the existence of Purgatory and the use of unleavened bread in liturgy. Although the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom was declaratively pronounced as Bishop Simeon’s jurisdictional territory, in fact his jurisdiction spread predominantly over the Croatian and Slavonian Military Border, where the Orthodox Vlachs had been settled ever since the late sixteenth century. The monastery of St. Michael in Marča in the Varaždin Generalcy (the Slavonian Military Border) became the see of a new Greek Catholic eparchy. Having analyzed available sources about Simeon’s prelacy, the author concludes that motives and circumstances of Simeon’s acceptance of union with the Catholic Church cannot be clearly recognizable, and that the majority of the Orthodox population in the Military Border did not accept union with the Catholic Church in the spring of 1611, as some historians have previously claimed.

Trogir in Franjo I's Cadastre

Trogir u katastru Franje I

Author(s): Irena Benyovsky / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Dalmatia; cadastre; Trogir; cadastre of Trogir; Franjo Tomašić ; Zadar; Archive of maps of Istria and Dalmatia; State Archive in Split; Registry of Land Parcels;

The first half of the 19th century in Dalmatia is marked out by the rule of Francis I. Austrian strategic interests resulted in a long-prepared reorganization of the structure of the state which brought about significant changes. Traditional commercial and fiscal relations were transformed. On 23 December 1817, Francis I issued the “Patent for the introduction of a stable cadastre” (Patent uber die Einfuhrung des stabilen Katasters), by which a general property tax was introduced in the Monarchy. Work on the cadastre of Dalmatia was begun after the nomination of Governor Franjo Tomašić in Zadar (the capital of Dalmatia) in 1822 and completed in 1838. Immediately after the triangulation was done in 1838, the original cadastral plans were deposited in the Central Archives in Vienna. Today, copies of these can be found in the State Archive in Split under the title “Archive of maps of Istria and Dalmatia.”

Zagreb Political Journals Between Years 1848-1850.

Zagrebački politički listovi 1848.-1850. godine : izabrani članci

Author(s): Tomislav Markus / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: political journalism; history of political journalism; Zagreb Political Journals

Tekstovi zagrebačkih političkih listova iz razdoblja 1848.-1850. predstavljaju jedno od najvažnijih izvora za proučavanje tadašnjih političkih, vojnih, društvenih, privrednih i drugih zbivanja i procesa u Banskoj Hrvatskoj. U njima su dolazila do izražaja težnje, interesi i ciljevi hrvatskih javnih djelatnika, od pojedinaca, preko pojedinih interesnih grupa do hrvatskih državnih ustanova. Tadašnji listovi, jedini u sjevernoj Hrvatskoj, svjedoče o određenom stupnju razvitka političkog javnog mnijenja i moderne političke kulture u hrvatskom društvu u kojem su upravo tada, u proljeće 1848., ukinuti kmetski odnosi i provedenih izbori za prvi nestaleški Sabor. Novinski članci predstavljaju, doduše, sami po sebi, objavljen materijal, ali mogućnosti njegovog korištenje za historičare vrlo je ograničena, jer samo na jednom mjestu - u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu - postoji cjelovito sačuvana zbirka svih tadašnjih listova. Iz tih razloga postoji, vjerujem, potreba da se donese izbor članaka iz tadašnjih listova, koji bi trebali pružiti, po mogućnosti, vjerodostojnu sliku kako o tadašnjim prilikama u Hrvatskoj, ali i o ljudima, koji su uređivali zagrebačke listove, odnosno surađivali u njima. Jedini dosadašnji izbor s tekstovima iz zagrebačkog tiska 1848.-1850. (Vaso Bogdanov, Hrvatska ljevica u godinama revolucije 1848-49 u svijetlu naše četrdesetosmaške štampe, Zagreb 1949) ne zadovoljava niti osnovne kriterije stručnog priređivanja građe, zbog mijenjanja pravopisa, fragmentarnog donošenja tekstova i to skoro isključivo iz Slavenskog Juga, s ciljem dokazivanja određenih interpretacija priređivača i izostavljanja tekstova iz većine listova (većim dijelom iz Novina dalmatinsko-hervatsko-slavonskih, a potpuno iz Agramer Zeitunga, Sudslawische Zeitunga i Jugoslavenskih novina).

The Political and Social Elite of Serbs in Croatia at the End of the Nineteenth Century.

Politička i društvena elita Srba u Hrvatskoj potkraj 19. stoljeća

Author(s): Nives Rumenjak / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Serbian club; People’s Party; Khuen’s People’s Party; Károly Khuen Héderváry; Croatian Military Border

This research deals with a historiographically common subject that, until now, did not have monographic coverage. Its subject are the members of the political, social and economic elite of Serbs assembled in the Serbian club within the Croatian Diet as the part of the ruling People’s Party at the time of viceroy (ban) Károly Khuen Héderváry (1883-1903). Insufficient research of this segment of the Serbian politics loyal to the government at the time it was becoming a significant factor in the system of Croatian agreement autonomy, primarily reflects the lack of both suitable primary and secondary sources, and the innovative methodological approaches that are caused by the scarceness of the basic resources on the subject. Comparative prosopography proved to be the optimal methodological tool in placing the research focus on a very narrow and biographically unknown elite group that was active in different spheres of Croatia proper (Banska Hrvatska) as well as in the wider regional frame of Transleithania (the state union between Croatia and Hungary) at the turn of the 20th century. Prosopography is an established method of political and social history that is used in the research of numerically identifiable (smaller) elite groups in a shorter time frame and it implies analysing a number of complementary serial sources by introducing standardized questions on the background and status of the members of the Serbian elite. The use of comparative prosopography has enabled detection of a deeper social and economical background of the political action and ideology of the Serbian club, as well as a broader circle of the Serbian elite in several social spheres Σ within the institutions of Hungarian- Croatian parliamentarism, in banks, savings banks and financial organizations in Croatia proper and within the institutions of Serbian church and school autonomy in Hungary and Croatia. Prosopography has not, until now, been used by other researchers for analysing the subjects from Croatian history, and therefore it was applied in creating the database on elite groups that lacks in Croatian historiography of the 19th and the 20th century, especially if it is taken into consideration that this was a period of systematic production of many suitable printed serial sources, especially public or state registers on administrative affairs and economy. The groundbreaking importance of this research, from the perspective of Serbian subject matter in historiography, is mostly reflected in the fact of (re)construction of the Serbian identity in quite a number of representatives in the Croatian Diet and especially those members in ruling structures of the financial organizations since most of the available Croatian and Serbian sources from that period either indirectly imply a possible Serbian nationality of the individuals in the researched groups and institutions or they are tacit on the subject. The book embarks upon analysing the subject that historiography so far has mostly dealt with in regards with the Serbian club within Khuen’s People’s Party.

Old Provincial Catalogue or Catalogue of the Province of the General Church

Stari pokrajinski katalog ili Katalog provincija Opće Crkve

Author(s): Ante Škegro / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Charlemagne; Late Antiquity; Early medieval History; Catalogue of the Province of the General Church; Provinciale vetus sive Ecclesiae universae provinciarum notitia; Croatian history

Provinciale vetus sive Ecclesiae universae provinciarum notitia is a complex source in which one of the oldest catalogues of the Catholic bishoprics can be found. The source was dated in the period of Charlemagne (768-814) and grouped together with documents and codexes from his era, inspite the fact that some data are from the later centuries. It is evident that content and structure of this source is very complex, including the data form different periods: we can identify several authors and redactors of the source. Also, we can compare this source with the Liber censum Romanae Ecclesiae, a list of the bishoprics, abbeys, chapters and some lay institutions subjected to the Roman Church, which had the financial and other obligations towards it. This document was written in 1192 by papal chamberlain Sabellus Cencius. Provinciale vetus sive Ecclesiae universae provinciarum notitia is rich with data form early-medieval Christian history. The analysis of its content shows that this source contains documents from different periods. It is evident that already in the early-medieval period the author who was not really a connoisseur of religious and political history revised it. This conclusion was made already by an editor who published Medieval sources in the mid-19th century. The publication was equipped with rich critical apparatus, but remains unclear why the source Provinciale vetus sive Ecclesiae universae provinciarum notitia, containing documents from later periods, was published together with the documents and codexes from the period of Charles the Great. Some authors have been ignoring this source, or have used its information in a negative sense. This source, however, should be used by researches of the Late Antiquity and Early medieval History in comparison with other sources and using critical methodology .

Dardani and Dardania Religion and Cult in Antiquity

Religije i kultovi Dardanaca i Dardanije u antici

Author(s): Zef Mirdita / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: cult; religion; Egyptian religion; Oriental cults; Gods of Olympus; Greek gods; christianity;

Obwohl die Dardaner der römischen Herrschaft erst in dem Jahre 200 vor Chr. unterlagen, dank derer geographischen Position, die eine Brücke zwischen verschiedener Völker und Kulturen, besonders derjenigen in der Welt des Altertums, in der ersten Reihe des Ägäischen Raums, darstellte, begann die Zeit der Antike dort, unterschiedlich von anderen Stämmen Illyriens, schon im V. Jahrhundert vor Chr. Es ist nun verständlich, dass dies vom wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Bereicherung, Änderung und sogar Synkretisierung verschiedenartiger Kulturen sowie des materiellen und geistigen Lebens war. Diese Erscheinung wurde gerade in der Sphäre des geistigen Lebens, der Religion und der Kulte sichtbar. Es ist klar, dass dort, wo der Durchbruch der kulturellen und geistigen Güter leichter war, wie es in Dardanien der Fall war, und zwar in den Bereichen die Flusstäler (Vardar, Morava, der Weiße und Schwarze Drim, Ibar) entlang, sowie in den Kontaktzonen, bzw. in den Grenzgebieten - dort war auch der geistige Reichtum verschiedenartiger Kulte, sowie die verschiedenen Formen des religiösen Ausdrucks vielartiger. In diesem Sinne verstehen wir die Tatsache, dass, wenigstens wenn wir von dem zentralen, südöstlichen und südwestlichen Gebiete des Territoriums der Dardaner sprechen, dieses Gebiet, sozusagen, unter dem unmittelbaren Einfluss des Hellenismus stand. Der Ziel des ersten Teils dieser Studie wäre, auf Grund des epigraphischen und archäologischen Materials einen Überblick aus dem religiösen Leben verschiedener Kulte während verschiedener Zeiträume im Leben der Dardaner und auf dem dardanischen Territorium zu geben, und zwar seit der Urgeschichte, konkreter, vom Neolithikum biz zur Spätantike. Es ist klar, dass ein so großer Zeitraum sowie die Größe des Territoriums, das geographisch betrachtet groß und räumig ist, nicht nur die Unterschiedlichkeit der verschiedenartigen Ausdrucksformen des religiösen Lebens mit sich bringt, sondern auch die Erscheinung des Synkretismus verschiedenartiger Kulte und Glauben. Andererseits aber ermöglicht die geographische Unterschiedlichkeit dieses Gebietes auch die Bewahrung und Resistenz der epichorischen Kulte und einheimischen religiösen Phenomäne.

Zagreb Liberal Journalism 1848-1852 and Creation of Modern Croatia

Zagrebačko liberalno novinstvo 1848.-1852 i stvaranje moderne Hrvatske

Author(s): Vlasta Švoger / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: journalism; Südslawische Zeitung; Slavenski Jug; Saborske novine; Jugoslavenske novine;

In diesem Buch werden die kroatischen liberalen in Zagreb erscheinenden Blatter Saborske novine (1848), Slavenski Jug (1848-1850), Sudslawische Zeitung (1849-1852) und Jugoslavenske novine (1850) als moderne offentliche Medien mit sehr komplexer politischer und gesellschaftlicher Funktion dargestellt und zwar auf Grund komparativer Methode. Nach einer methodologischen und historiographischen Einleitung setzte die Autorin die genannten Blatter in raumlichen und zeitlichen Kontext und beschrieb die Umstande, in denen das Pressewesen in der Habsburgermonarchie vom Jahre 1848 bis zum 1852 wirkte, also in dem hier besprochenen Zeitraum.

Canonic Visitations of Senj and Modruš (Krbava) Bishoprie

Kanonske vizitacije Senjske i Modruške (Krbavske) biskupije

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: personal visitation; Senj Parish; Senj bishoprie; Modruš bishoprie

Spisi koji su pred nama predstavljaju primjer crkvene birokratske „literature“– strogo formaliziran niz pitanja koja je vatikanska administracija postavljala svojim službenicima, te odgovori koji su na njih dobiveni. Međutim, osim suhih podataka o kanoničkim karijerama i ustroju kaptola, ovi nam dokumenti otvaraju prozor u mnoge segmente života onodobnoga Senja: vjerski, kulturni, intelektualni, trgovački, pa i onaj koji bismo nazvali zabavnim – i po tome su specifični u odnosu na većinu preostalih spisa iz korpusa koji nazivamo kanonskim vizitacijama.

Party of Right’s Thought and Politics

Pravaška misao i politika

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Croatian Party of Right; Ante Starčević; Ivo Pilar; Party of Right; Frano Supilo, Josip Frank; Independent State of Croatia; Juraj Tomac; Rightist Movement

With contributions by Zlatko Hasanbegović, Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević, Stjepan Matković, Jure Krišto, Marko Trogrlić, Zoran Grijak, Zlatko Matijević, Srećko Lipovčan, Ivica Miškulin, Mario Jareb, Goran Ante Blažeković

1945 - Caesura in the Croatian History

1945. - Razdjelnica hrvatske povijesti

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Croatian history;

With contributions by Marijan Maticka, Jerca Vodušek Starič, Drago Roksandić, Tihomir Cipek, Ivo Goldstein, Nada Kisić Kolanović, Zdenko Radelić, Biljana Kašić, Ljubomir Antić, Darko Dukovski, Tvrtko Jakovina, Katarina Spehnjak, Marica Karakaš, Nikica Barić, Jure Krišto, Miroslav Akmadža, Vladimir Geiger, Mario Jareb, Berislav Jandrić, Mario Kevo, Martina Grahek-Ravančić, Zdravko Dizdar, Davor Kovačić, Goran Hutinec.

1918: Precedences, Events, Consequences

Godina 1918. Prethodnice, zbivanja, posljedice

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: World War I; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Croatia; Kingdom of Serbs; Croats and Slovenes;

The year 1918 and the end of World War I marked a turning point in both European (and world) and Croatian history. The great material and human losses and the disappearance of the multinational, multi-religious and multicultural Austro-Hungarian Monarchy from the political map of Europe marked a critical moment in the history of the peoples living in its south. Croats, Slovenes, Serbs and Bosniaks, hitherto subjects of the black-yellow Monarchy, in the maelstrom of social and political forces are leaving the Central European cultural and civilizational circle and entering the Balkan geopolitical space, or the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia).

Never Again Yugoslavia - Intellectuals and the Croatian National Question (1929–1945)

Nikada više Jugoslavija - Intelektualci i hrvatsko nacionalno pitanje (1929. – 1945.)

Author(s): Stipe Kljaić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Independent State of Croatia; Yugoslavia; Croatian national question; intellectuals;

The book "Never Again Yugoslavia" is the result of eight years of work by the author Stipe Kljaić, which began as part of his doctoral studies in history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In addition to Dr. Marija Jareb, Ph.D., the reviewers of the book were Dr. Davor Kovačić, Ph.D., and Prof. Ivo Banac, Ph.D., who also served as the mentor during the writing of the doctoral dissertation. The doctoral dissertation titled "Intellectuals and the Croatian National Question (1929–1945)" was defended at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in the spring of 2015. After defending the doctoral dissertation, the author further expanded and revised it, leading to its publication as the result of eight years of work. It is important to note that the book was published as part of the project "Croatia in the 20th Century: Modernization in Conditions of Pluralism and Monism," led by Dr. Zdenko Radelić, and financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.

Ustasha on the Adriatic: Authority of the Independent State of Croatia in the Adriatic Croatia After the Fall of Kingdom of Italy

Ustaše na Jadranu: uprava Nezavisne Države Hrvatske u jadranskoj Hrvatskoj nakon kapitulacije Kraljevine Italije

Author(s): Nikica Barić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: World War II; Independent State of Croatia; Dalmatia; Sušak; Rijeka; Istria; Ministry for liberated areas;

The book deals with the policy of the Ustasha movement and the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) towards the Croatian Adriatic regions. Through the Rome Treaties of May 18, 1941, the NDH was compelled to cede significant portions of these regions, especially in Dalmatia, under the control of the Kingdom of Italy. After Italy's surrender in September 1943, the NDH had the opportunity to regain control over most of these territories. Based on numerous new and previously unused archival sources, the book examines the administration of the NDH in the former annexed parts of Dalmatia. This administration lasted until late 1944 when the German army and the NDH administration withdrew from Dalmatia, and the area fell under the control of Tito's partisans. The book also illustrates how the NDH attempted to extend its authority to Sušak-Rijeka, Istria, and the Bay of Kotor after Italy's surrender.

The Town of Split during the 1980s: Social Conflicts in the Twilight of Yugoslav Socialist Self-Management

Split 1980-ih, društveni sukobi u sutonu samoupravnoga socijalizma

Author(s): Nikica Barić / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Split; Croatia; Yugoslavia; 1980s; Self-managing Socialism;

The book portrays the main political, social, and economic events and issues in the city of Split during the last decade of communist rule, from the death of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in 1980 to the first multiparty elections held in 1990. It is based on extensive research of various sources, including the press, as well as archival sources, documents from the League of Communists, the State Security Service, and the then-Assembly of the Municipality of Split. The first part depicts the activities of socio-political organizations (such as party and youth organizations), the second part focuses on the economy of Split, the third part addresses specific social problems (housing, economic crime, industrial pollution), and the fourth and final part of the book deals with the regime's attitude toward Croatian nationalism, the Catholic Church, the echoes of Slobodan Milošević's "anti-bureaucratic revolution" in Split, the establishment of new political parties, and the results of the first multiparty elections in Split. The book follows the situation in Split during a decade of pronounced economic, social, and political crisis in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Matrix Croatica in The Independent State of Croatia

Matica hrvatska u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj

Author(s): Višeslav Aralica / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: Matrix Croatica; The Independent State of Croatia; culture; ideology;

The book examines the history of the Matrix Croatica (Matica hrvatska) from 1935 until the end of the Independent State of Croatia. It primarily focuses on the mutual influence and intertwining of the activities of the cultural institution and the ideology of the nationalist/Ustasha political movement, in two periods: first, when this movement was in opposition to the main political currents in the state, and second, when this movement attempted to create and organize a totalitarian state.