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Knjigocid: Uništavanje knjige u Hrvatskoj 1990-ih. By Ante Lešaja. Zagreb: Profil, 2012. 600 pp. Bibliography. Index. CD-ROM documentary supplement. Hard bound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert M. Hayden*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

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References

1. On book burnings in Nazi Germany, see Fishburn, Matthew, Burning Books (New York, 2008).CrossRefGoogle Scholar On book burnings more generally, see Báez, Fernando, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern lraq (New York, 2008)Google Scholar; Knuth, Rebecca, Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century (Westport, Conn., 2003);Google Scholar Knuth, Rebecca, Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction (Westport, Conn., 2006).Google Scholar

2. See Kešetović, Želimir, Cenzura u Srbiji (Belgrade, 1998).Google Scholar

3. See, e.g., Mirić, Jovan, Demokracija i Ekskomunikacija (Zagreb, 1999)Google Scholar; see also Mirić, 's more format study, Demokracija u Postkomunističkim Društvima: Primjer Hrvatske (Zagreb, 1996).Google Scholar

4. Rebecca Knuth notes that Croat forces destroyed an important Serbian library in Croatia in 1991 but then asserts that the Croatian government began to “display an awareness of the reprehensibility of such actions.” Knuth, Libricide, 120. Since the actions Lešaja analyzes mainly took place well after the end of the war, it seems that the Croatian government learned, rather, about the dangers of destroying books in public.

5. See, e.g., Báez, , Universal History of the Destruction of Books, 254–55Google Scholar; Knuth, Libricide, 120-22.

6. Viktor Ivančić, “Mržnja prema knjizi,” Novosti [Zagreb], 13 July 2012, 5.