Dinko Antun Tomašić was a Croatia

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n sociologist

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 and academic. He was born in Smokvica on the island of Korčula

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 in Croatia. He studied law at the University of Zagreb

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 and the University of Paris

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 and taught in Zagreb. After his immigration to the United States ca. 1943, he became a member of the faculty at Indiana University

Indiana University

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. He also worked for the United States Air Force

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 and for Radio Free Europe

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. Tomašić was the author of numerous publications on various aspects of the sociology of international relations

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Works

• "The Impact of Russian Culture on Soviet Communism" Glencoe: Free Press, 1953, ISBN 1121824765

• "Personality and Culture in Eastern European Politics" MIT Press, 1948, ISBN 0262200023

• "An account on the reactions of a Serb village community in Croatia to recent social and ideological innovations" Institute of East European Studies, Indiana University, 1950, ASIN: B0006CZOFI

• "The problem of unity of world communism" Marquette University, Slavic Institute, 1962, ASIN: B0006BT9Q4

External links

• Cross-examination of Stjepan G. Meštrović - Cross-examination of Stjepan G. Meštrović at the International Criminal Trial for the former Yugoslavia discusses in part the work of Dinko Tomašić
• Sociology of Dinko Tomašić - Descriptions of some scholarly works about Tomašić.
• Violent Highlanders and Peaceful Lowlanders: Uses and Abuses of Ethno-Geography in the Balkans from Versailles to Dayton An essay including analysis of Tomašić's "Personality and Culture in Eastern European Politics"

A "cultural interpretation of the collapse of Communism in the former Yugoslavia" that frequently cites the work of Dinko Tomašić.