Croatian Political History

1. Explain the development of Craotian state-building from the foundation of the Croatian state till present
2. Explain croatian nationa identity-building processes from the begging of the 19th century till presence
3. Describe Croatian political processes in the multinational polities of Habsburg Monarchy and Yugoslavia
4. Explain ideology and politics of main Croatian political parties in the 19th and the 20th century
5. Analyze the actions of the main agents of the Croatian politics during the WWII and in the period of the Socialist Yugoslavia.
6. Explain and analyze the struggle for Croatian independence during the Homeland War

lecture

discussions about the assigned readings, presentations

assigned readings, reaction papers writing, preparation of presentation

1. Introduction to the course: explaining the course sylabus, tasks and students' workload and system of grading. Lecture: Political history of the Croatian territories until the start of modern national identity-building processes.
2. Lecture: Political system of the Habsburg Monarchy. Seminar: The Monarchy as a "community of Peoples" (Volksstämme); national identity-building processes in the Habsburg Monarchy.
3. Lecture: State-Creating Issue, the beginning of the Croatian national identity-building process and politics in Croatia 1830-1848.Seminar: Foundation of the first Croatian modern political parties- Illyrian Movement and Magjarons; the era of absolutizm in Austria in the 1850s
4. Lecture: Austro-Hungarian Compromise 1867, Croatian–Hungarian Settlement 1868 and the politics in Croatia 1868-1918. Seminar: Croatian political parties in the Austro-Hungary, the terms of the bans (Viceroy) Ivan Mažuranić and Khuen Hedervary.
5. Lecture: Croatian Politics before and during the WWI and the foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of SCS) in 1918. Seminar: Croatian Politics before and during the WWI and the foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of SCS)
6. Lectures: Political System of the Kingdom of SCS. Seminar: Political Parties in the Kingdom of SCS; the politics of the Croatian Peasant Party and the Croatian National Question in the 1920s.
7. Lecture: The solution of the Croatian national question in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the Banovina Hrvatska in the 1939. Seminar: the radical opposition- the communists and the Ustasha.
8. Midterm exam.
9. Lecture: Croatia during the WWII: The Independent State of Croatia vs. the Federal State of Croatia in Yugoslavia. Seminar: Political System of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the politics of the peasant, Ustasha and communist movement in Croatia during the WWII, the mass atrocities perpetrated by the Ustasha and by the Communists
10. Lecture: The foundation and consolidation of the communist dictatorship in Yugoslavia in the 1940s and the 1950s. Seminar: The creation of the Socialist Yugoslav Self-managing system, the national question in the Socialist Yugoslavia.
11. Lecture: Reforms of the political and economic system and the federalization processes in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and the 1970s. Seminar: Josip Broz Tito's statesman's role, Nonalignment Movement, the Ideology in the Socialist Yugoslavia.
12. Lectures:The Croatian Spring and it's breakdown. Seminar: The position of Croatia in the Soclialist Yugoslavia
13. Lectures: The crisis in Yugoslavia in the late 1970s and in the 1980s; the politics of Slobodan Milošević and the breakdown of the Socialist Yugoslavia. Seminar: The GreatSerbian Nationalism in the 1980s and Memoranda of the SErbian Academy of Sciences and Aarts from the 1986.
14. Lectures: The disintegration of the SFRY and the foundation of the Republic of Croatia. Seminar: Croatian Homeland War 1991-1995.
15. Final exam.