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Cultural memory on the "great" people in the "small" town: Perception of the King Aleksandar Karadordevic and Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the cultural memory of Samobor

Nowdays we can defend thesis that ''history is written by the winners'' and therefore ''mainstream'' history can be understood as revised and politically instrumentalized mean of certain nation's ''cultural'' memory, which some consider as ''history of selective memorization and selective forgetivness''. In contemporary Croatian historiography most approaches which are focused on historical periods of monarhist and socialist Yugoslavia starts from the ''greater national'' themes. Similar preoccupation has not balked neither those historiographic approches which, as the main focus of their interest, put problems of analyzing and understanding how collective memories are being constructed. However, our aim here is to move from the ''greater'' themes to a ''smaller'' (local) setting. The example of a small Croatian urban centre, like Samobor, is going to serve us as theme for analyzing in which way in that local setting rulers of two Yugoslavias – King Aleksandar Karađorđević and Marshal Josip Broz Tito – were being perceived? By analyzing relevant archival sources as well as contemporary periodics we would like to understand ways in which local authorities and elite, from the position of their social power and status, had received mentioned rulers in visit, in which ways they had been honoured and how were they are commemorated. We would like to understand proccess of creation of local social memory, constitution of memorial and cultural patterns, their key cultural elements and meanings, wnich are in moments of changes of social and state systems thorn apart, only to be constituted again by recombinating cultural and social elements as well as comprising other actors. In other words, center of analysis will be focused on tracing the collective memory of population of Samobor towards the ''great leaders''.

Samobor; Croatia; cultural memory; Aleksandar Karađorđević; Josip Broz Tito.

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