Tvrtko Jakovina (born 2 March 1972) is a

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n historian. Jakovina is a full time professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the

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Biography

Early life

Tvrtko Jakovina was born in the eastern Croatian town of Požega where he finished elementary school and

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, and also completed his compulsory military service.

Education

He studied history at the University of Zagreb from 1991 to 1996. Jakovina was founder and first honorary member of the Croatian branch of

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. As an exchange student he attended courses at

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and Boston College. He completed his postgraduate studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. During the 2000/01 academic year, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at

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Since then, he has also attended

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, and seminars on the

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Academic career

Jakovina has presented many public lectures and attended many forums in Croatia and abroad. He has co-authored a history textbook for senior high school students. He has authored hundreds of articles published in daily newspapers such as '' Jutarnji list'' and ''

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''. Due to his publicly expressed attitudes on the importance of objectivity in historical studies, he has often been attacked by Croatian radical right-wingers. In his work, he is mostly interested in the history of the 20th century,

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, the Cold War, the

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, and the policy of detente. His books received state prizes in 2004 and 2014, while he also received ''Kiklop'' book prize in 2013. Jakovina is coordinator of the postgraduate Diplomacy study program of the Faculty of Political Science and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

Publications

Books

*''Socijalizam na americkoj pšenici'' (

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: ''Socialism on the American Grain''). Matica hrvatska:

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. 2002 *''Američki komunistički saveznik. Hrvati, Titova Jugoslavija i SAD 1945.–1955.'' (

: ''The American Communist Ally. Croats, Tito's Yugoslavia and the United States 1945-1955''). Profil International: Zagreb. 2003 *''Treća strana Hladnog rata'' (

: ''The Third Side of The Cold War''). Fraktura:

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. 2011 *''Trenuci katarze. Prijelomni događaji XX stoljeća'' (

: ''Moments of Catharsis. Breaking Events in the Twentieth Century''). Fraktura: Zaprešić. 2013 *''Budimir Lončar: Od Preka do vrha svijeta'' (

: ''Budimir Lončar: From Preko to the top of the World''). Fraktura: Zaprešić. 2020

Political and public engagement

Tvrtko Jakovina is a prominent public critic of a violent right wing

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, historical revisionism of

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oriented towards unscientific positive reinterpretations of the puppet

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and absent or unscientific recognition of Ustashe genocide against

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, Roma as well as their crimes against their opponents. Jakovina has signed the CIVICO Europa initiative against

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policies in the fight against

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. The initiative was signed by 73 European personalities including

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, Slavoj Žižek and from Croatia alongside Jakovina also

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, Vesna Pusić, Seid Serdarević and Željko Trkanjec.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jakovina, Tvrtko 1972 births Living people 21st-century Croatian historians Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb People from Požega, Croatia Cold War historians KU Leuven alumni Georgetown University alumni