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We are the only true representative of nation: Croatian communist national identity-building: the case of Vladimir Bakarić

This paper analyses how the life-long most influential Croatian communist leader Vladimir Bakarić built the Croatian nation. It shows how, during the Second World War and in the immediate post-war period Bakarić was in charge of conceptualizing the communists as the true heirs to national traditions and guardians of true national interests. From the early 1960s on Bakarić accompanied the ideological mastermind of the Yugoslav road to socialism Edvard Kardelj in building the nations and Yugoslav socialist patriotism respectively in accordance to the self-management system program. Assuming national, economic independence as a specific form of self- management by the working people, Bakarić built the idea of the Croatian self- managing nation. It was conceptualized as a self –managing community that would rest on a combination of socialist constitutional patriotism and a self -managing culture, eventually leading to the Croatian classless community of working people. Since the concept of a self-governing nation was rather abstract, in the country’s everyday politics, it manifested as opposition to federal centralism, which was perceived as a mere façade to cloak greater- Serbia tendencies, thus eventually bringing about further consolidation of the ethnic- based Croatian national identity.

Vladimir Bakarić ; communism ; nation-building ; Croatia ; self-managing national identity

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