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The Legacy of War and Nation-Building in Croatia since 1990

This chapter examines how the cultural memory of war, specifically the legacy of World War II, is manifested in public space, the political arena, and conceptions of Croatian statehood. . Moreover, the chapter analyzes official narratives of the recent past to highlight which institutionalized and collective memories are used in nation-building. For Croatia, this recent past includes not only the legacy of World War II, but also the legacies of the communist regime and the conflict in the 1990s, often resulting in a blurring and overlapping of narratives and meanings. Victims of war, especially victims represented exclusively through national identity, play an important role in nation- building narratives since memory entrepreneurs “endeavor to use them to symbolically connect past, present, and future generations in an image of the nation as an eternal entity.”

Croatia, war, memory, nation-building, Second World War

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