DR. FRANJO TUĐMAN U SRPSKOJ HISTORIOGRAFIJI
FRANJO TUĐMAN IN SERBIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Author(s): Jakša Raguž
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Serbian Literature, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Franjo Tuđman; Serbian historiography; Homeland War;
Summary/Abstract: The portrayal of Franjo Tuđman in 88 analyzed publications by Serbian historiographers of different provenance and ranking, academician or lower, who analyzed the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the wars that had accompanied the process, is pronouncedly negative. Tuđman is given a negative verdict as a person (chauvinist), historian (lacks objectivity, uses historiography in service of political goals, plagiarist), and politician (follower of the fascist regime of the Independent State of Croatia, autocrat, warmonger, creator and enforcer of politics of genocide and ethnical cleansing, and so on). The authors of such diagnoses mostly try to avoid parts of his biography that could compromise the uniformity of their verdicts (his participation in the antifascist movement during World War II, for instance, or his endeavors to find an amicable solution for the Serbian rebellion in Croatia 1990/1995). The views of Serbian historiographers are not surprising given the political and social climate in Serbia, which has not changed much throughout the past decades.

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