Croatia
(see also Yugoslavia, Serbia & Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Coalition for International Justice
In the Library: Articles
Judah, Tim. "The fog of justice," NY Review (1/15/04):23-25. Milosevic trial as seen from ex-Yugoslavia.
Okey, Robin. "The legacy of massacre: the 'Jasenovac myth' & the breakdown of Communist Yugoslavia," in Levene & Roberts (eds.) The Massacre in History (NY, 1999), pp. 263-82.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Banac, Ivo. The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History & Politics (Ithaca: Cornell, 1984).
Bulajic, Milan. Tudjman's "Jasenovac Myth": Genocide against Serbs, Jews, & Gypsies (trans. Miroslava Jankovic; Belgrade: Strucna, 1996).
Carmichael, Cathie (comp.) Croatia (Santa Barbara CA: Clio, 1999).
__________. Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism & the Destruction of Tradition (NY: Routledge, 2002).
Dedijer, Vladimir (ed.) The Yugoslav Auschwitz & the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II (Buffalo NY: Prometheus, 1992).
Fabijancic, Tony. Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country (Edmonton: U. of Alberta, 2003).
Koff, Clara. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia & Kosovo (NY: Random House, 2004).
McAdams, C. Michael. Croatia: Myth & Reality (Arcadia CA: Croatian Information Service, 1992).
Mojzes, Paul. Yugoslavian Inferno: Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans (NY: Continum Publishing, 1995).
Tanner, Marcus. Croatia: A Nation Forged in War (New Haven CT: Yale, 1997).
Trifunovska, Snezana (ed.) Minorities in Europe: Croatia, Estonia & Slovakia (Cambridge MA: Kluwer Law International, 1999)
Ugresic, Dubravka. The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays [1995] (London, 1998). Sharp critique of the "political & cultural perversions" of modern Croatia, and of the petty dictators who tore apart her former country, Yugoslavia.
Vladovich, Simon. Croatia: The Making of a Nation (1994).
In the Library: Fiction
Batistich, Amelia E. An Olive Tree in Dalmatia, & Other Stories (Aukland: Paul's Book Arcade, 1963).
KrieZa, Miroslav. The Cricket Beneath the Waterfall, & Other Stories (ed. Branko Lenski; NY: Vanguard, 1972).
Novakovich, Josip. April Fools' Day: A Novel (NY: HarperCollins, 2004).
Payne, Holly. The Sound of Blue (NY: Dutton, 2005).
Radakovich, Borivoij; Matt Thorne & Tony White (eds.) Croatian Nights: A Festival of Alternative Literature (London: Serpent's Tail, 2005).
Tomizza, Fulvio. Materada (trans. Russell Scott Valentino; Evanston IL: Northwestern U., 2000).
Ugresic, Dubravka. Fording the Stream of Consciusness (trans. Michael Henry Heim; Evanston IL: Northwestern U., 1993).
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