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The communist legacy and public discourse in Croatia, 1990-2017

This paper aims to explore the role of archives in dealing with the communist past, that is, about the public debates about the contested archival material and the problems which researchers have been facing in Croatia in the last two decades. It will inquire into the past practice of Croatian historians in doing research on the communist period. Finally, it will show the practical consequences of the newly adopted legal changes on the case of the Horizon 2020 project „COURAGE-Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent” (2016-9). In the Horizon 2020 call “Reflective-4-2015-Cultural opposition in the former socialist countries“ (2014-5) one of the focal points of investigation were “the archives of the secret police and other oppression bodies of the socialist state“, which had to be explored „in order to understand the position of the communist regime vis-à-vis the outputs of the researched cultural opposition movements“. The funded COURAGE project thus gave a special attention to the legacy of the state and party apparatus, among which the case studies from the Croatian secret police files appeared for the first time.

public discourse, archives, communism, Croatia

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