Tvrtko Jakovina is a tenured professor and former head of the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is the author of „Socialism on the American Grain“/Socijalizam na američkoj pšenici/ (2002), „The American Communist Ally. Croats, Tito’s Yugoslavia and the United States 1945-1955“ / Američki komunistički saveznik; Hrvati, Titova Jugoslavija i Sjedinjene Američke Države 1945-1955/“ (2003), “The Third Side of The Cold War” /Treća strana Hladnog rata/ (2011), “Croatian Spring – 40 years Later” /Hrvatsko proljeće, četrdeset godina poslije” (editor, 2012), “Moments of Catharsis. Breaking Events in XXth Century” / Trenuci katarze. Prijelomni događaji XX stoljeća/ (2013) and “25 Years of Croatian Independence – What is Next?” /25 godina hrvatske neovisnosti – kako dalje?” (editor, 2017). Jakovina authored many articles dealing with the foreign policy of Tito’s Yugoslavia and Croatian history in the 20th century.
Jakovina is a lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb and guest-lecturer at Istituto per l’Europacentro-orientale e balcanica, University of Bologna.
Date: 27/05/2019
Place: Klub Mama / Multimedijalni Institut, Zagreb
Interviewers: Marina Gržinić, Sefik Tatlić
Filming: Valerija Zabret
Editing: Marina Gržinić, Valerija Zabret