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Croatian Society in Communist Yugoslavia Shown in Cartoons in Zagreb Daily Vjesnik in the 1950s
Lidija Bencetić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3281-0783
; Croatian institute of history, Opatička 10, Zagreb
Sažetak
The major social problems in Croatia in the 1950s were detected using cartoons
published in the Zagreb daily Vjesnik as a source of historiography. The cartoons
clearly illustrate the major social problems of communist Croatia as follows:
bureaucracy, alcoholism, nepotism, and unfavourable social status of
women, society’s negative attitude towards children and youth, insuffi cient efforts
in the tourist industry, unfavourable housing conditions for large parts of
the population, high prices of food and other necessities. The cartoons proved
to be a very accurate indicator of social problems since the bulk of problem
areas they dealt with was corroborated in literature, in other words historical
and sociological research showed the justifi cation of caricaturing individual
issues. For part of the cartoons whose problem areas have not been researched,
one could assume, based on the accuracy of the social problems researched and
analysed, that they are also an authentic presenter of society and its issues
Ključne riječi
cartoons; communist society; daily Vjesnik; social problems
Hrčak ID:
152478
URI
Datum izdavanja:
5.2.2016.
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