• DOI:10.1080/00905992.2012.743511
Corpus ID: 153965465

Symbols and the culture of memory in Republika Srpska Krajina

@article{Pavlakovi2013SymbolsAT,
  title={Symbols and the culture of memory in Republika Srpska Krajina},
  author={Vjeran Pavlakovi{\'c}},
  journal={Nationalities Papers},
  year={2013},
  volume={41},
  pages={893 - 909}
}

• Vjeran Pavlaković
• Published 2013
• Political Science
• Nationalities Papers

This article examines how rebel Serbs in Croatia reinterpreted narratives of World War Two to justify their uprising against the democratically elected Croatian government in 1990 and gain domestic and international legitimacy for the Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK) parastate. While scholars have written about the strategies nationalist elites used regarding controversial symbols and the rehabilitation of World War Two collaborators in Croatia and other Yugoslav successor states, the RSK's… Expand

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