Summary
James J. Sadkovich: Franjo Tuđman - Political Biography: Partisan, General, Historian, Dissident and First President of Croatia
This is not a book that is intended to deal with the last period of Tuđman's activity, although it is perhaps the most important from our perspective today.
The book is divided into nine chapters, in which Sadkovich deals with Tuđman through all his life changes, and the last chapter, which is also a kind of epilogue, refers to the period of Croatian independence and the modern Croatian state.
Sadkovich tried to explain Tuđman's intellectual and political development before 1990 through his long-term research of Tuđman's biography, while trying to correct many prejudices and wrong opinions about Tuđman that have become entrenched to this day. What is the extent of his research, the list of sources and literature that Sadkovich studied and read speaks volumes. Hardly anyone has read as much about Tuđman as he has. However, this book is not only Tuđman's biography. The spirit of the time in which Tuđman grew up and matured, in which he was formed and in which he acted, also emerges from it.
After reading the book, many will learn a lot from our contemporary history, not only about Tuđman, about relations in the old Yugoslavia, about the Second World War and the aftermath, and most of all about the numerous processes in communist Yugoslavia, both in politics and in historiography.
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