Original scientific paper

CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTY IDEOLOGY IN CROATIA (1945 – 1948)

Biljanja Kašić ; Institute of Contemporary History, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Investigating ideological picture of postwar life in Croatia necessarily involves thinking about Party ideology. Party ideology covers the entire social space using means of direct management, intermediation, and control of all segments of life. In this article, the author investigates the institutions responsible for the creation of ideology (Agitprop, in particular, as a paradigmatic model of ideology mediation), emphasizing close connectedness of revolutionary ideology with the intentions of the government.
The three characteristics of Party ideology are analyzed: direct legitimization of socialist system, where Agitprop uses various legitimizing means, sublimation of national identity in function of »objective interests« of the proletariat, and Party-belonging as a measure of revolutionary world-view.
Using various rnethodologies, the author pays a special attention to the elements of newly created structures of Party power, which Communist Party exercised through rnedia (controlling the press and the radio), current campaign and propaganda, discourse, and series of iconic elements, including charismatic legitimation of power.

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Hrčak ID:

206694

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/206694

Publication date:

2.4.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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