Ivo Banac

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Ivo Banac (born March 1, 1947 in Dubrovnik - † June 30, 2020 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian historian and politician ( environment minister , party leader of Liberalna stranka , member of parliament).

Act

Banac, who at the Fordham University and later at Stanford University Historical Sciences studied was there in 1975 his doctorate . He then worked as a research assistant at Stanford University and the State University of San Francisco and continued working on contemporary history in Eastern Europe. From 1988 he taught history at Yale University . Between 1994 and 1999 he taught as a history professor in Budapest at the Central European University , where he headed the Eastern Europe Institute. Since 2008 he has been professor of history at the University of Zagreb , since 2018 at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb.

Banac was a member of the HSLS ; When this split in 1997, he belonged to the Liberalna stranka , of which he was chairman until 2004. In the second half of 2003 he was Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning in the Government of the Republic of Croatia under Ivica Račan . From 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the Sabor (Croatian Parliament). Since leaving the party, he was a non-attached member of the Sabor until the end of the 5th legislative period in 2008.

From 2007 to 2009, Banac was chairman of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. He was the editor of scientific journals, in particular of East European Politics and Societies , and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since 2010 he has been running the Yale Summer School in Dubrovnik.

Works

  • Effects of World War I; The Class War After the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties in East Central Europe, 1918-1921. East European Monographs. Boulder, 1983, ISBN 0-8803-3028-7 (as editor)
  • The national question in Yugoslavia: Origins, history, politics. Cornell University Press, Ithaca / London, 1984, ISBN 0-8014-1675-2 .
  • With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist splits in Yugoslav communism. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1988, ISBN 0-8014-2186-1 .
  • Raspad Jugoslavije: Eseji o nacionalizmu i nacionalnim sukobima. Durieux, Zagreb, 2001, ISBN 953-188-139-1 (The disintegration of Yugoslavia. Essay on nationalism and national conflicts).
  • Hrvati i crkva: kratka povijest hrvatskog katoličanstva u modernosti. Profile, Zagreb, 2013, ISBN 978-953-313-216-7 (The Croats and the Church. A Brief History of Croatian Catholicism in Modern Times).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Preminuo povjesničar Ivo Banac. In: oslobodjenje.ba . June 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 (Bosnian).
  2. ↑ Nakon Teske bolesti u Zagrebu per preminuo povjesničar Ivo Banac. In: Dnevnik.hr. June 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 (Croatian).
personal data
SURNAME Banac, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian historian and politician, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubrovnik
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2020