Preliminary communication
CROATIA AND YUGOSLAVIA: SOME PROBLEMS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Zdenko Radelić
; Croatian Institute of History
Abstract
The author describes some of the fundamental problems of research into the more recent history of Croatia, especially from the perspective of its move to independence. Bringing to light the causes of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the outbreak of war in 1991, he puts forward some possible responses on the basis of research done up to now and the existing literature. He puts forward some hypotheses, which he believes that future research will confirm. The main cause of the collapse of Yugoslavia resides in the incapability of the Communist regime, much as was the case in the earlier monarchist regime, to create common long-term economic and cultural interests among all of Yugoslavia’s constituent peoples, or at least, in a radical variation, to create a Yugoslav nation. The reason for this was that the already formed nationalities aspired to independence and they refused to sacrifice their national individualities and political freedoms on account of the Yugoslavian state community.
Keywords
dissolution of Yugoslavia; creation of the independent Republic of Croatia; causes of 1991 war; historiography
Hrčak ID:
101956
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2003.
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