FRANJO TUĐMAN I ISTRA
FRANJO TUĐMAN AND ISTRIA

Author(s): Nevio Šetić
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Political history, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Istria; Republic of Croatia; Croatian national question; antifascism; Franjo Tuđman; HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union); IDS (Istrian Democratic Assembly) ;
Summary/Abstract: The author discusses Franjo Tuđman’s contribution to the analysis and understanding of historical and political processes and events that took place in the Croatian national territory in the 19th and 20th centuries. He describes the particularity of the Croatian national question and the Croatian national integration process, the understanding of the antifascist and national liberation movement, and the fundamental human and national values and the right of the Croatian nation to self-determination and independence, nationwide and in the Istrian region alike. As a historian, Franjo Tuđman had not studied Istrian history directly, but he addressed it within his studies of the recent Croatian, Southern Slavic, and European history. The article also discusses Franjo Tuđman’s conduct towards Istria and its residents in the capacity of the President of the Republic of Croatia and the President of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) based on an analysis of the reports published in the local daily Glas Istre and four speeches Tuđman had delivered in Istria at the beginning of the 1990s, as well as looks into the political views of the Istrian Democratic Assembly’s (IDS) elite on Franjo Tuđman and the politics of the Croatian Democratic Union, at whose helm he had been.

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