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The Past in the Present: Post-communist Croatia

Social change in Croatia during the 1990s proceeded under exceptionally complex historical circumstances in which the impact of the recent past was particularly significant. The process of overcoming the communist legacy was interwined with natiobal emancipation, the establishment of an independent state and international recognition, ethnic conflict in Croatia and the neigboring region with international involvement, war and the struggle for territorial integrity, as well as the problems associated with the creation of civil society. The most important positions in the new political elite were assumed by former communists and political dissidents backed by political emigres.Historian Franjo Tuđman, the head of the victorious political party, the Croatian Union, and the first president of independent Croatia, became the centra personality of Croatian politics. Although he was a former communist and one of the Tito's generals, he later became a political dissident. Tuđman's political activities were conditioned byhis unambiguous hisroricism, above all pertaining to matters of interethnic relations and the Croatian state- building tradition, and by the constraints of communist ortodoxy. His style of rule overall political demeanor were greatly drawn from the political heritage of Josip Broz Tito. Individual aspects of the complex and, in many ways, controversional relationship between Tuđman and Tito, which were reflected in the contemporary attitude toward the recent past, are covered in this work.

Post-communist Croatia; Josip Broz Tito; Franjo Tuđman; WWII political legacy; reconciliation

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