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Rezension von: Gross, Mirjana: Suvremena historiografija. Korijeni, postignuca, traganja. - Zagreb, 1996

The author continues his research work on Croatian constitutional tradition. This tradition includes the system of national values on which Croatian politicians in the l9th century founded their national programs. Therefore, the author tries to analyze the basic values and structures included in that tradition, to explore its genesis, and to investigate its historical influence on the development of political and social life in Croatia. In his opinion, other authors did not consider this tradition either a "dogma" or an "ideology", as the recent historiography puts it, because here the legal and sociopolitical values, on which the new political, state and social system is founded, are in question. Out of abundant researches on that subject, the author singles out only the analysis of the "Address" which Croatian Parliament, after a long discussion, brought in 1861 as its most important document, i.e. as the national program which was presented to the king in the form of demands. (SOI : CSP: S. 267f.)

On leaving Zadar in September of 1943, Italians burnt the biggest part of their political documents in the courtyard of the then Waterworks Department. This has been a setback for those interested in the interwar history of Zadar and Dalmatia, particularly those investigating the first months of the occupation. The lack of authentic documents is even today an obstacle to a solidly and scientifically built argumentation in the study of that period of Italian occupation and thus every new document, hidden in the rich collection of the Historical Archives in Zadar is a challenge for a new or a more complete interpretation of the first year of the Italian occupation of Dalmatia. This text is another attempt to answer this challenge by means of the original material from the archives and to fill in certain missing pieces in the mosaic of the organization and relationship between the civil and the military authorities in the occupied Dalmatia in 1919. (SOI : PM: S. 203)

The archival material about the Croatian Parliament during the World War Two is kept in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb and it is an important source for studying the period of the Independent State of Croatia. The author presents a short survey of the archival material, pointing out its value in studying political, social and economic situation in the Independent State of Croatia. (SOI : CSP: S. 590)