STARE I NOVE PARADIGME HRVATSKE HISTORIOGRAFIJE
OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS OF CROATIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Croatian historiography is faced with a very peculiar difficulty. On the one hand, Western historians acknowledge a great influence of the idea of Communism in Western education, notably historiography. On the other hand, some recognised Croatian historians reject the idea that Marxism and the Communist party influenced historiography to any substantial degree. They, therefore, reject the idea that (their) historiography should be revised or corrected. Moreover, any attempt in that direction, even any historical interpretation that differs from theirs, they qualify as unscholarly and "unscientific". Using theoretical reflections on the nature of "historical thinking", the author disagrees with those Croatian historians and argues that Croatian historiography is faced with a new paradigmatic determination since Croatia gained independence. Former historiography was marked by the paradigm of Yugoslavism as the ultimate realisation of Croatian nationhood and its highest political attainment.

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