This book argues that today we live in the culture of the past that delimits our world and
configures our potentialities. It explores how the past invades our presents and investigates …

Most scholarship on post-Communist Croatia claims that the first Croatian president, Franjo
Tuđman, intentionally rehabilitated the legacy of the World War II (WWII) Croatian Ustaša …

The accession of Croatia to the EU marked the end of a long and arduous period of
transition. Croatia had to meet significantly higher criteria than previous states with suspicion …

Detecting the gap in the existing literature of Franjo Tuđman's political thought, this article
comprehensively analyzes Tuđman's nationalist ideology prior to the 1990s. Using a …

In Croatia, the war of symbols and the rise of hate speech has been manifested most
prominently through Za dom spremni (“Ready for the Homeland”); the official salute of the …

Based on public demands for rectifying injuries of the past, memory politics recently became
the most potent catalyst of social divisions and confrontations, as well as possible limitation …

This chapter examines the discourse about communist crimes through case studies of the
most important and most visible commemorations of Bleiburg and Jazovka. Both sites of …

Since the beginning of the liberalization and democratization process in the late 1980s, the
concept of Europe has played a major role in Croatian political discourse. The meaning of …

Knjiga se sastoji od šest poglavlja te četiri priloga. U prvome, uvodnom poglavlju opisuju se
metode korištene u istraživanju, uz induktivni pristup analizi teme ove knjige. Dva temeljna …

This article analyses the media discourse surrounding the WWII fascist salute Za dom
spremni (ZDS) in the aftermath of two national commemorations that took place in Croatia in …