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Croatian Historiography of World War I. – How to win a war by losing it?

The research on World War I in Croatian historiography was analysed in the first part of this paper in the context of extreme twists and turns of dominant narratives and public paradigms in Croatia in the period from 1918 to 2015. In accordance with these changes, approaches to the research on the topic were changing also. Thus, four main periods in Croatian historiography, coinciding with the changes of the state frameworks that Croatia was a part of, can be determined: 1918-1941 (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia), 1941-1945 (Independent State of Croatia), 1945-1991 (Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia/Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) and the period after 1991 (Republic of Croatia). In the second part of the paper, trends in research on World War I in Croatian historiography during the past hundred years were compared with the dominant trends in Western European historiographies (England, France and Germany). They showed great similarities, but no direct influence of foreign historiographies on Croatian could be confirmed. Therefore, a thesis was posited that these similarities have largely been the result of general social circumstances in Europe.

World War I, Croatia, historiography

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