Naslov
The Politics of History in Croatia and Slovakia in the 1990s

Autori
Đurašković, Stevo

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Autorske knjige, monografija, znanstvena

Izdavač
Srednja Europa

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2016

Stranica
226

ISBN
978-953-7963-37-8

Ključne riječi
politics of history ; historical legacies ; HDZ ; HZDS ; Franjo Tuđman ; Vladimir Mečiar

Sažetak
This book compares the politics of history and the national identity-building ideologies used by the ruling parties in Croatia and Slovakia in the 1990s. Drawing upon various sources, The Politics of History in Croatia and Slovakia in the 1990s shows that the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) led by Franjo Tuđman and the Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) led by Vládimir Mečiar gained and maintained power by convincing the electorate that they were the best state-creating agents and, hence, the “saviors of the nation”, which could protect their nations against the resentment that was exercised by the “senior” partners - the Serbs and the Czechs - towards the respective Croats' and Slovaks' claims for sovereignty. Both parties conceptualized themselves in an anti- civic fashion as all-embracing national movements that would bring about the reconciliation of the historically fractioned nations by embodying the synthesis of the entire nations’ historical statehood-building legacies. These similarities of the politics of history and similar patterns of historical legacies were characterized by the “junior” partner roles the two nations had in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia respectively, as well by the traumatic legacies of the respective Croat and Slovak WWII Nazi satellite states ; while the differences stem from the more traumatic Croatian twentieth-century legacy in comparison with Slovakia's. Exposing the operation of the politics of history in the political legitimizing processes as well as in the transfer of the politics of history into the various policies of history - including national symbols, commemoration policies, public spaces, as well policies of transitional justice - this is the first full-length study on the nexus between history/memory and the political power with respect to the Croat and Slovak nations’ historical legacies as well as to the contexts of Yugoslavia's and Czechoslovakia's respective dissolution processes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Povijest

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