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He explores how small nations survive between the "scylla and charybdis" of world powers, often having to resort to radical means to maintain their identity. Controversies

Bespuća povijesne zbiljnosti (Wastelands of Historical Reality) Author: Franjo Tuđman (First President of the Republic of Croatia) Published: 1989 (First edition) Context: A seminal work of political philosophy and history published on the eve of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the creation of the modern Croatian state.

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Reading Bespuća without critical context is not scholarship; it is advocacy.