Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22586/csp.v55i2.28588
Student Movement in Zadar in 1971 from the Perspective of Repressive Bodies of the SFRJ (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Marin Vlasnović
orcid.org/0000-0001-9422-2170
; Zagreb, Croatia
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Zlatko Begonja
; Department of History, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
This article, based on original archival records, presents the direction taken by the student movement in 1971, with exclusive reference to the city of Zadar. In this context, the documentation of the State Security Service of the Republican Secretariat for Internal Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (SDS RSUP SRH) was the principal source. This collection contains numerous notes, observations and conclusions about the activities of Zadar university students as well as of individuals or groups of people from the area who were close to them in terms of fundamental principles. As a result, it is important to point out that the personal files of the actors surveilled during the period of the events that marked the student activities in the crucial moments of the Croatian Spring were produced and maintained by the aforementioned arm of the regime. At the same time, one should note that the mentioned files observed separately are not always absolutely relevant material. However, as a whole, together with other documentation, they create the prerequisites for a deeper intrusion and a more comprehensive analysis of the topic of observation. The approach of this paper is aimed at highlighting the key behaviours of communist repressive bodies, and in this sense, especially of those who were prioritized in attempts to prevent the achievement of student goals.
Keywords
Croatian Spring; State Security Service; student movement; students from the University of Zadar
Hrčak ID:
313160
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2023.
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