Vladimir Bakarić i Praxis
Vladimir Bakarić and Praxis

Author(s): Dino Mujadžević
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and society, History of Education, State/Government and Education, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Vladimir Bakarić; SKH; the journal Praxis; the student demonstrations of 1968;
Summary/Abstract: On the basis of transcripts of conversations of Vladimir Bakarić and his comrades during the period 1964-1968, which are held among the Bakarić papers in the Croatian State Archive, it is possible to trace the attitude of the leadership of the Communist Party of Croatia (SKH) in quite close detail regarding the dissident Marxist circle gathered around the journal Praxis. Bakarić looked very negatively upon the activities of this group, which among other things had sharply criticized the economic reforms carried out in 1965 that introduced some elements of market economy in Yugoslavia calling for a return to utopian ideals of socialism, and he orchestrated a media campaign against them in the mid 1960s. After student demonstrations took place in Belgrade and Zagreb in 1968, which Bakarić believed were inspired by the group around Praxis, he was personally engaged in the Party’s discipline of individual sympathizers and the group at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb.

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