ABSTRACT
The following chapter analyses author’s experiences in delivering the course in Modern Croatian Political History during the second semester of the Political science undergraduate studies with the objectives to break the contemporaneous popular nationalistic historical narrative. In his teaching, he focuses on the comprehension of complexity and contingency of history. Subsequently in the seminar discussions, he introduces the students into a skill of a cause-effect thinking thus making students eventually to grasp comprehensively a particular historical event. The observable outcomes have been that students are able to understand the history in much more complex terms after attending the course. Eventually, they stop blaming others for particular hardships in the Croatian nation’s history. Since the stated outcome presents the introduction into coming to terms with the past processes, the author argues that these classes contribute to prospective break of a future cycle of violence, especially in respect to the legacy of the war for independence that Croatia relatively recently went through.
