Naslov
Confronting Croatia's Communist Past

Autori
Cipek, Tihomir

Izvornik
Central European political science review (1586-4197) 15 (2014), 57; 79-93

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Croatian communist past ; nationalism ; HDZ ; Franjo Tuđman ; lustration

Sažetak
This text deals with the confrontation with the communist past in Croatia, which is characterised by the absence of a lustration process. This is explained by the ideology and structure of the Croatian governing party in 1990 - HDZ - whose politics defined the first decade of democratic transition. The leadership of the party which was mostly made up of former communists advocated for the politics of national reconciliation, which tried to use Croatian nationalism to reconcile communists and anti-communist, for which it received support of the very influential Catholic Church. The other reason was the Croatian defensive war against Greater-Serbian aggression. President of Croatia Franjo Tuđman considered participation in the war to be lustration of a sort. Formeer members of the Yugoslav People's Army or the communist secret police performed a kind of self- lustration by taking an active part in the war on the Croatian side.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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