Povijest kontarevolucije

Two hundred years of Croatian history, from the French Revolution in 1789 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, was mostly written and interpreted from the perspective of the so-called progressivist ideas and positions, which means that the space for research and reflection on Croatian conservatism was either very narrow or completely blocked by liberal-communist propaganda about conservative thought as something retrograde and backward.

Historian Stipe Kljaić (Šibenik, 1982), author of the bestseller Never Again Yugoslavia, chose 12 paradigmatic, mostly forgotten conservative thinkers (and fighters) from Croatian history for this book - Povijest cotrarevolucije / Croatian conservative thought from 1789 to 1989. who believed that everything new is not and does not have to be better than what was before, and that old, proven values are the only sure foundation for new social construction. The group of twelve is led by the champion of Croatian conservative thought, friar from Brač, counter-revolutionary Andrija Dorotić, philosopher, politician, police chief, benefactor, who launched an armed uprising against the French in Dalmatia, and is also composed of: Mihovil Pavlinović, Kosto Vojnović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Đuro Arnold, Stjepan Zimmermann, Dominik Barač, Milivoj Magdić, Hijacint Bošković, Bonifacije Perović, Bogdan Radica and Franjo Tuđman.