Review article
https://doi.org/10.52328/t.5.2.1
Stipe Šuvar and the question of Serbs in Croatia
Rade Dragojević
orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-2883
; Journalist, Zagreb
Abstract
Stipe Šuvar (1936 — 2004) was a politician, sociologist, publicist and public figure from Croatia. In his public addresses, articles, and political speeches and actions he always tried to unite two peoples, Croats and Serbs. During his long career, which spanned from the early sixties until his death in 2004, he always advocated political and cultural cooperation between these nations. He was also a proponent of the so-called “Yugoslav socialist patriotism”. The idea of a democratic national consciousness was united with the idea of Yugoslavism within the doctrine of Yugoslav patriotism. After 1990, he criticized and opposed to anti-Serb rhetoric, which dominated the Croatian public sphere. With this, he obliged the Serbs in Croatia in a unique way and deserves their permanent gratitude, as his colleague Svetozar Livada noted
Keywords
Serbs in Croatia; Stipe Šuvar; Yugoslavism; linguistic nationalism; socialist patriotism
Hrčak ID:
286916
URI
Publication date:
9.12.2022.
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