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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DR. FRANJO TUĐMAN'S WORKS On the Occasion of the 70th Birthday and the 40th Anniversary of the First Written Work
Anđelko Mijatović
; Ured Predsjednika Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marija Sentić
; Institut za suvremenu povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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The President of the Republic of Croatia, dr. Franjo Tuđman, is a well known Croatian historian; in the course of the past four decades he has written and published a number of historical works: monographs, treatises, essays, and articles in the fields of worId and Croatian history. Tuđman was born in 1922 in Veliko Trgovišće, Hrvatsko Zagorje. His father Stjepan was a well known activist of the Croatian Peasant Party and one of the main initiators of the anti-fascist movement in Hrvatsko Zagorje. As a young man since the first days of WorId War II Tuđman was a participant in the anti-fascist partisan movement in north-western Croatia. Since the beginning of 1945, he worked in the Ministry of Defence among other positions as the deputy editor-in-chief of the Military Encyclopedia, in Belgrade. Although he graduated from the Higher Military Academy (1955—1957) and was promoted to the rank of general in 1960, he left the active military service the folloving year, 1961, and devoted himself to his work as a historian. From 1961 to 1967 he vforked as a director of the Institute for the History of Workers' Movement in Zagreb, and in 1963 he was appointed a professor at the College of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb. In 1969 he earned a PhD in historical sciences at the University of Zagreb, with the thesis »The Causes of the Crisis of Monarchist Tugoslavia from the Unification in 1918 to the Collapse in 1941.« Tuđman's position that every nation should have its own army, which he represented in the concept of armed people and territorial defense, became very early an object of criticism of the supporters of hegemomstic and centralistic concepts of the state. Tuđman became a target of this criticism especially wlien, in 1965, he opposed the exaggerated number of victims in the Ustashe camp of Jasenovac, by which a complex of guilt was being imposed on the Croatian people. Although Tuđman was a member of many high political, cultural and educational bodies at home and abroad, and also a member of manyeditorial boards, this criticism nevertheless earned him many political difficulties. In connection with that, in 1967 he resigned from the position of the director of the Institute, he was expelled from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and had to leave the University. I n 1972 he was arrested, a n d in the well kno n political trial was sentenced to two years in prison because of his connections with »foreign countries« and Croatian emigration. In February 1981, he was sentenced to three years in prison and was prohibited from public activities for 5 years because of interviews given to the Swedish and German television and French radio in connection with his historical views and advocacy of democratic ideas. A t the time of the collapse of the socialist systems in Eastern Europe, in 1989, Tuđman founded the Croatian Democratic Union with a program of creating an independent a n d democratic Croatian state. He has been its president since its founding, and since May, 30, 1990, after democratic elections were held, he has been the president of the Republic of Croatia. Tuđman started to occupy himself with scientific work very early, already in the first half of the fifties. H e has published a considerable number of monographs, discussions, a n d articles from the fields of historical sciences, military theory, contemporary national history a n d philosophy of history, and International relations. Almost ali of Tuđman' s historical work concerns the struggle for political and state freedom of the »small nations«, and is prim ar ily connected whh the past and t h e present of the Croatina people, that is, with the position of
Croatia and the Croats within the framework of the former state of Yugoslavia.
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Hrčak ID:
190656
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Datum izdavanja:
1.7.1992.
Posjeta: 1.955 *