Book: Shaping Revolutionary Memory. The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia. Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc, 2023 (IZA Editions) Review by Daniel Palacios González, National University of Distance Education (UNED) Can a vast memory culture developed by thousands of people and interacting with millions over decades be fetishised and reduced to one word that strips …
During the Croatian War of Independence, the Croatian Army and military police had occupied the barracks, which were then handed over to the city of Rijeka and finally transformed into the university campus that opened in 2011. Since then I have heard rumours that a monument to the Spanish Civil War had once been located on the site of the former barracks, but the building of the campus had completely changed the landscape and all my efforts to track down information on the possible existence of a monument were fruitless.
Aleksandar Jakir, University of Split, Croatia, Department of History Cover picture: Monument to the Revolution (1967), World War II memorial in Podgarić, Croatia, one of Džamonja’s best-known works | Plamen at Serbian Wikipedia In all modern societies, monuments play an important role in the process of construction of the historical or collective memory. During the …