Tüntetés amerikai olvasatban: Zágrábi Egyetem, 1951
Demonstrations in American Interpretation: University of Zagreb, 1951

Summary/Abstract: Digitizing U.S. State Department reports, the Gale Company has published a number of sources in the form of thematic collections that provide important additions to the history of Central-Eastern Europe after 1945. The Cold War meant not only a military-political confrontation and competition between the two blocs, but also a cultural competition in which it was vital that the two superpowers obtain as much information as possible about each other’s institutions and vulnerabilities. On the American side, we can learn a lot about this, as many documents can be searched online (the same cannot be said of the similar activities on the Soviet side) – this paper is about the first major student movement of the new post-World War II Yugoslav regime, which took place at the University of Zagreb on October 31, 1951. I present the American interpretation of this event on the basis of two consular reports and one CIA report, which are of particular importance as few outside, non-socialist sources of similar events have survived.

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