Zapadna kulturna produkcija u napisima Naprijeda 1950.–1952.
Western Cultural Productions in the Articles of Naprijed, 1950-1952

Author(s): Marko Fuček
Subject(s): Cultural history, Media studies, Political history, Government/Political systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Naprijed; liberalization; western culture; cultural politics;
Summary/Abstract: Naprijed, the party organ of the Communist Party of Croatia (KPH), was in practice the executor of cultural politics of the KPH during the early 1950s. Consequently, an analysis of the articles published in this weekly allows one to reconstruct the attitude of the leadership of the KPH to western culture. The liberalization of the early 1950s did not mean that the idea that culture was the implement of creating a socialist society was abandoned, but the focus shifted from prevention of ideological errors to education, deliberation, and dialogue which would lead towards “correct” ideological conclusions. Through a series of comments and reviews of western literature, drama and especially films in Naprijed, an attempt was made to gain an understanding of the prevailing attitude toward western culture, the main evaluative criteria of imported works and the level of ideological flexibility toward their evaluation.

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