engleski

Differentiation as a means of party control. The case study of dissenters from the Croatian Spring in Zadar (1971-72)

Next to imprisonment, a purge campaign called „ideological-political differentiation“ was also a means of punishment and intimidation of dissenting Party members in socialist Yugoslavia. Differentiation means that a person is suspended from the communist Party, removed from his/her job, and „differentiated“ out of political, economic and public life. Differentiation processes were frequent phenomena in the aftermath of the Croatian Spring (1971.), when 25.000 people in Croatia were expelled from the Party. On 1 December 1971 Josip Broz Tito convened a joint meeting at Karađorđevo in Vojvodina, where the presidency of the League of the Communists of Yugoslavia met with the presidency of the League of the Communists of Croatia. In this meeting, the Croatian national Mass Movement, which grew into a crisis, was mostly discussed. Under pressure, the Croatian party leaders resigned and the Mass Movement collapsed. In January 1972 differentiation processes started at a large scale. In this paper, a case study and a practice of a differentiation process against the writer Ivan Aralica in Zadar will be examined based on the collection of reports and minutes of the working group commissioned to interrogate the most prominent persons and party members of the local version of the Croatian Spring. The collection, which is preserved in the State Archives in Zadar, will be described in the COURAGE registry.

differentiation, party control, Zadar, Croatian Spring

nije evidentirano