Naslov
The impact of the political context on Croatian heroic mythology

Autori
Despot, Igor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Myths in south-eastern European textbooks

Mjesto i datum
Tirana, Albanija, 22.10.2014. - 24.10.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Peasant Revolt; the Siege of Szigetvár; Croatian history textbooks; heroes

Sažetak
In every country political elites determine education policy. Croatia is not exception. The Peasant Revolt and Nikola Šubić Zrinski present good examples for monitoring that education policy in history teaching. One of the proclaimed objectives of teaching is to develop love for the homeland and the most suitable for that goal are fighters against invaders. That is why Nikola Šubić Zrinski has always been appreciated as a hero. His noble position that was in dialectical materialism perceived as something negative could not hurt such a perception. On the other hand, the resistance of the peasants against their feudal lords was part of the social history. The attitude towards that resistance depends largely on society and social values that it promotes. During the socialist era, Matija Gubec and other insurgents were seen as those who spinned the wheel of history in the right direction, in the direction of a classless society. With the collapse of socialism, a classless society ceased to be the ideal. The previous settings of Marxist historiography have been denied and the Peasant Revolt has become just a phenomenon of the time without far-reaching consequences. The Peasant Revolt is not mandatory part of the program, and, depending on the author, it is not mentioned or it's included in larger units.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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