Foretić Miljenko: Dubrovnik: časopis za književnost, umjetnost, znanost i društvena pitanja I-III-1971(zabranjeni brojevi)

Dubrovnik: magazine for literature, art, science and social issues I-III-1971 (prohibited issues)

Chief editor: Miljenko Foretić

The first issue of the magazine "Dubrovnik" was published at the end of 1955 and covered a very prestigious field of activity. Vladimir Čaldarević, Nikola Ivanišin, Stjepan Kastropil and Marija Novaković were in his first Editorial Board, then also called the Subcommittee. In the difficult circumstances of the ruling real-socialism, an effort was made to make it an active cultural factor predominantly focused on cultural issues in Dubrovnik's past. Over time, young domestic literary and scientific potentials managed to gather and assert themselves. They collaborate in the magazine. Dubravko Skurla, Luko Paljetak, Feđa Šehović, Milan Milišić, Stijepo Miović Kočan, Miljenko Foretić, Vlaho Benković and others. In 1967, the magazine became more and more involved in contemporary social events, publishing conversations about urbanism and tourism and the southern Adriatic project, and about the Dubrovnik Summer Games since 1968. The circulation reaches a thousand copies and receives  all general recognition. Thematic issues dedicated to Marin Držić and Fran Supil are edited, and in no. 2 (?) In 1971, an ambitious project with the thesis "On the Congress of Croatian Culture" was launched, which brought together leading names of the time: Vlad Gotovac, Franja Tuđman, Grga Gamulin, Branimir Donat, Ljudevit Jonke, Miroslav Brandt, Cvit Fisković, Ivo Frangeš, Šima Đodan, Vlatko Pavletić and others. In 1967, the Declaration on the Name and Position of the Croatian Literary Language was adopted in Zagreb, and the political struggle of reformist currents against conservative forces intensified, which ended in a temporary halt to social progress in Croatia at the end of 1971. Thus, in 1969, premeditated attacks began on Matica Hrvatska, and thus on its Dubrovnik branch, especially on the magazine "Dubrovnik" as an advocate of the promotion of Croatian cultural heritage, which especially escalated in 1971. In December, the work of Matica Hrvatska was banned, and the magazine "Dubrovnik" was politically blamed as a direct transmitter of the ideas of the so-called counter-revolutionary group from the headquarters in Zagreb, so the police confiscated all documentation and monetary assets of the Branch. The editor-in-chief, Miljenko Foretić, was detained and tried, many members of the Board of Directors were abused and convicted by the police, pushed into long-term isolation and deprived of basic civil rights. By court decision, issues 1-3 of the magazine "Dubrovnik" from 1971 were confiscated, and issues no. 4 and 5 in preparation.