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{{Short description|Island in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia}}
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'''Goli Otok''' ({{IPA|sh|ɡôliː ǒtok|pron}}; {{Literal translation|Barren Island}}) is a barren, uninhabited [[List of islands of Croatia|island]] that was the site of a [[political prison]] which was in use when [[Croatia]] was part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj |title=The Parallax View |date=2009 |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, MA |page=288 |quote=Goli otok ... a notorious Communist concentration camp}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Almond |first1=Mark |title=Europe's Backyard War: The War in the Balkans |date=1994 |publisher=Mandarin |location=London |page=158 |quote=The island concentration camp of Goli Otok ...}}</ref> The prison was in operation between 1949 and 1989.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dežman |first1=Jože |title=The Making of Slovenia |date=2006 |publisher=National Museum of Contemporary History |location=Ljubljana |page=140 |quote=the concentration camp on Goli otok established in 1949}}</ref>

The island is located in the northern [[Adriatic Sea]] just off the coast of [[Primorje-Gorski Kotar County]], [[Croatia]] with an area of approximately {{convert|4.5|km2|sp=us}}. Exposed to strong [[Bora (wind)|bora]] winds, particularly in the winter, the island's surface is almost completely devoid of vegetation, giving Goli Otok (literally, 'barren island' in Croatian) its name. It is also known as the "Croatian [[Alcatraz Prison|Alcatraz]]" because of its history as a prison.<ref name="National Geographic" />

==Prison==
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Despite having long been an occasional grazing ground for local shepherds' flocks, the barren island was apparently never permanently settled other than by the prisoners during the 20th century.{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}} Throughout [[World War I]], [[Austria-Hungary]] sent [[Russia]]n prisoners of war from the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]] to Goli Otok.{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}}

In 1949, the entire island was officially made into a high-security, top secret prison and [[labor camp]] set up by the authorities of the [[People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]],{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}} together with the nearby [[Sveti Grgur]] island, which held a similar camp for female prisoners. Until 1956, following the [[Tito–Stalin split]] and throughout the [[Informbiro]] period, it was used to incarcerate [[political prisoner]]s. These included known and alleged [[Stalinists]], but also other [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] members or even non-party citizens accused of exhibiting sympathy or leanings towards the [[Soviet Union]].

Many [[anti-communists]] (Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Albanian and other nationalists etc.) were also incarcerated on Goli Otok. Non-political prisoners were also sent to the island to serve out simple criminal sentences<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.donja-klada.com/okolica/goli-otok/|title=Donja Klada » Goli otok<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125020131/http://www.donja-klada.com/okolica/goli-otok|archive-date=25 November 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Višestruki ubojica s Golog otoka opet ubio|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/arhiva/visestruki-ubojica-s-golog-otoka-opet-ubio/3335030/|date=31 May 2006|newspaper=[[Jutarnji list]]|access-date=27 February 2017}}</ref> and some of them were sentenced to death. A total of approximately 16,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/14/esau-46.pdf|title=Yugoslavia: The Outworn Structure|author=Central Intelligence Agency|author-link=Central Intelligence Agency|date=20 November 1970|page=3}}</ref>{{sfn|Previšić|2015|p=192}} political prisoners served there, of which between 400{{sfn|Previšić|2015|p=190}} and 600<ref name="National Geographic">{{cite web|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/goli-otok-political-prison-yugoslavia-croatia-video-spd/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901221258/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/goli-otok-political-prison-yugoslavia-croatia-video-spd/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 1, 2017|title=See the Haunting Ruins of a Prison Once Known as a 'Living Hell'|date=29 August 2017|work=National Geographic|last=Gibbens|first=Sarah|access-date=5 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Hrvatska/tabid/66/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/182162/Default.aspx|title=Srbija nudi odštetu zatvorenicima na Golom otoku - devet dolara po danu|work=[[Slobodna Dalmacija]]|date=25 July 2012|language=hr|access-date=2 September 2014}}</ref> died on the island. Other sources, largely based on various individual statements, claim almost 4,000 prisoners died in the camp.<ref>[http://aestovest.osservatoriobalcani.org/luoghi/goli_otok.html Goli Otok], ''AestOvest'', [[Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso]] 2008</ref><ref name="comune.bologna.it">{{cite web|url=http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/asnsmp/scotti.html|title=scotti|website=www.comune.bologna.it|access-date=7 November 2017}}{{Publisher missing}}</ref>{{sfn|Previšić|2015|pp=175–177}}

The prison inmates were forced to labor (in a [[stone quarry]], [[pottery]] and [[Woodworking joints|joinery]]), without regard to the weather conditions: in the summer the temperature would rise as high as {{convert|40|C|F}}, while in the winter they were subjected to the chilling [[Bora (wind)|bora]] wind and freezing temperatures.{{sfn|Previšić|2014|p=234}} The prison was entirely inmate-run, and its hierarchical system forced the convicts into beating, humiliating, denouncing and shunning each other. Those who cooperated could hope to rise up the hierarchy and receive better treatment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/hr/goli-otok-zloglasna-titova-kaznionica/a-4484078|title=Goli otok - zloglasna Titova kaznionica|last=Vežić|first=Goran|website=dw.com|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|language=hr|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/clanak/nikada-necemo-saznati-cija-je-konkretno-ideja-o-osnivanju-logora-na-golom-otoku-foto-20190210|title = 'Nikada nećemo saznati čija je konkretno ideja o osnivanju logora na Golom otoku'}}</ref>

After Yugoslavia normalized relations with the Soviet Union, Goli Otok prison passed to the provincial jurisdiction of the [[People's Republic of Croatia]] (as opposed to the Yugoslav federal authorities). Regardless, the prison remained a taboo topic in Yugoslavia until the early 1980s.{{sfn|Previšić|2015|p=174}} [[Antonije Isaković]] wrote the novel ''Tren'' (Moment) about the prison in 1979, waiting until after [[Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito|Josip Broz Tito's death]] in 1980 to release it. The book became an instant bestseller.<ref>Daniel J. Goulding, ''Liberated cinema: the Yugoslav experience, 1945-2001'', Indiana University Press, 2002. (p. 159)</ref>
The prison was shut down on 30 December 1988<ref name="VL 20050101"/> and completely abandoned in 1989.{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}} Since then it has been left to ruin.<ref name="National Geographic"/> It has since become a tourist attraction and is visited by [[shepherd]]s from [[Rab (island)|Rab]]. Former [[Croatia]]n prisoners are organized into the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Goli Otok.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20040525/novosti06.asp|title=Slobodna Dalmacija|website=arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr|access-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017094245/http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20040525/novosti06.asp|archive-date=2012-10-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> In [[Serbia]], they are organized into the Society of Goli Otok.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glas-javnosti.rs/clanak/glas-javnosti-03-12-2007/spomen-zrtvama-golog-otoka-na-adi|title=Spomen žrtvama Golog otoka na Adi - Glas javnosti|website=www.glas-javnosti.rs|date=3 December 2007|access-date=7 November 2017}}</ref>

===Notable prisoners===

[[File:Goli otok-OSM-cycle.JPG|thumbnail|Map of Goli Otok]]

*[[Šaban Bajramović]], Serbian Romani musician<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://100posto.hr/scena/odrastao-u-bijedi-zbog-djevojke-pobjegao-iz-vojske-pa-zavrsio-na-golom-otoku-pio-je-i-trosio-kao-da-nema-sutra-a-umro-u-bijedi |title=BIO JE NEPONOVLJIV / Odrastao u bijedi, zbog djevojke pobjegao iz vojske pa završio na Golom otoku. Pio je i trošio kao da nema sutra, a umro u bijedi – 100posto.hr |access-date=2019-04-16 |archive-date=2019-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416211803/https://100posto.hr/scena/odrastao-u-bijedi-zbog-djevojke-pobjegao-iz-vojske-pa-zavrsio-na-golom-otoku-pio-je-i-trosio-kao-da-nema-sutra-a-umro-u-bijedi |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Panko Brashnarov]], Macedonian politician<ref>Goli Otok: The Island of Death: a Diary in Letters, Venko Markovski, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, 1984, {{ISBN|0880330554}}, р. 42.</ref>
*[[Vlado Dapčević]], Yugoslav Montenegrin communist revolutionary and partisan<ref>{{Cite web |title=Odiseja Vlada Dapčevića |url=https://www.novosti.rs/dodatni_sadrzaj/clanci.119.html:364915-Odiseja-Vlada-Dapcevica |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=NOVOSTI |language=sr}}</ref>
*[[Adem Demaçi]], Kosovo Albanian politician and author<ref name=world>{{cite news |title=Croatia ponders fate of 'Tito's Guantanamo' |url=https://www.worldbulletin.net/balkans/croatia-ponders-fate-of-titos-guantanamo-h144395.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050840/https://www.worldbulletin.net/balkans/croatia-ponders-fate-of-titos-guantanamo-h144395.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 15, 2019 |access-date=14 February 2019 |date=2014}}</ref>
*[[Teki Dervishi]], Albanian writer<ref name=world/>
*[[Vlado Dijak]], Yugoslav Bosnian writer and partisan<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magazin |first=X. X. Z. |date=2017-03-14 |title=Ambasador boema - XXZ Portal |url=https://www.xxzmagazin.com/ambasador-boema |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=www.xxzmagazin.com |language=sr |archive-date=2022-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005090944/https://www.xxzmagazin.com/ambasador-boema |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Nikola Kljusev]], former Prime Minister of Macedonia<ref>{{cite web |title=Никола Кљусев |url=http://www.mn.mk/makedonski-legendi/3911 |date=6 April 2011 |website=Makedonska nacija |access-date=7 November 2017 |language=mk}}</ref>
*[[Tine Logar]], Slovenian linguist<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-01-05 |title=LINGUIST List 14.1: Obituary: Tine Logar |url=https://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-1/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=The LINGUIST List |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Venko Markovski]], Macedonian writer{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}}
*[[Dragoljub Mićunović]], Serbian partisan, sociologist, and politician<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mikuš |first=Marek |title=Frontiers of civil society : government and hegemony in Serbia |date=2018 |isbn=978-1-78533-891-5 |location=New York, NY |oclc=1020300288}}</ref>
*[[Dragoslav Mihailović]], Serbian writer{{sfn|Segel|2012|p=384}}
*[[Alfred Pal]], Croatian painter and graphic designer<ref name=jl>{{cite news |last=Čadež |first=Tomislav |title=Alfred Pal: Preživio holokaust, dvaput bio na Golom otoku, a onda radio najljepše hrvatske knjige |language=hr |work=[[Jutarnji list]] |url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/alfred-pal--autobiografija-hrvatskog-pionira-grafickog-dizajna-/952583/ |access-date=2012-07-03 |archive-date=2011-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814031610/http://www.jutarnji.hr/alfred-pal--autobiografija-hrvatskog-pionira-grafickog-dizajna-/952583/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Dobroslav Paraga]], Croatian politician<ref name="VL 20050101">{{cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/na-golom-otoku-zalio-sam-sto-nisam-kriminalac-802124|title=Na Golom otoku žalio sam što nisam kriminalac|date=1 January 2005|work=[[Večernji list]]|language=hr|access-date=27 February 2017}}</ref>
*[[Aleksandar Popović (writer)|Aleksandar Popović]], Serbian writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/dodatni_sadrzaj/clanci.119.html:396689-Pitomac-Golog-otoka|title="Pitomac" Golog otoka|website=www.novosti.rs|language=sr-Latn|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>
<!--*{{ill|Giacomo Scotti|hr||it}}, Italian writer{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}}-->
*[[Igor Torkar]], Slovenian writer{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}}
*[[Vlasta Velisavljević]], Serbian actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=NEVJEROJATAN ŽIVOT LEGENDE / Pobjegao je iz nacističkog logora, a robijao je na Golom otoku. Zbog toga ga se žena odrekla i nikad joj nije oprostio, a ni nakon 90. Ne želi u mirovinu – 100posto.hr |url=https://100posto.hr/scena/pobjegao-je-iz-nacistickog-logora-a-robijao-je-na-golom-otoku-zbog-toga-ga-se-zena-odrekla-i-nikad-joj-nije-oprostio-a-ni-nakon-90-ne-zeli-u-mirovinu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730171955/https://100posto.hr/scena/pobjegao-je-iz-nacistickog-logora-a-robijao-je-na-golom-otoku-zbog-toga-ga-se-zena-odrekla-i-nikad-joj-nije-oprostio-a-ni-nakon-90-ne-zeli-u-mirovinu |archive-date=2019-07-30 |access-date=2019-07-30 |language=hr}}</ref>
*[[Ante Zemljar]], Croatian partisan and writer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zemljar, Ante |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/zemljar-ante |language=hr}}</ref>
*[[Savo Zlatić]], Croatian physician and politician<ref>{{cite journal
| url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=10971
| title=Razgovor s dr. Savom Zlatićem
| trans-title=Interview with Savo Zlatić, M.D.
| journal=Arhivski vjesnik
| issue=47
| date=April 2004
| pages=119–132
| publisher=[[Croatian State Archives]]
| location=Zagreb
| last=Stipančević
| first=Mario
| volume=47
| language=hr
| format=PDF
| access-date=21 April 2014
}}</ref>
*[[Vitomil Zupan]], Slovenian writer{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}}

==Literature== 

[[File:Goli mapa.jpg|thumb|right|Goli Otok and its neighboring islands]] 

[[File:Old prison - Goli Otok - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Graffiti saying 'It's over!']] 

*1981: {{lang|sl|Noč do jutra}} ('Night till Morning Comes') ‒ novel by Slovenian author [[Branko Hofman]].{{sfn|Segel|2012|pp=323–325}}
*1981: {{lang|sq|Herezia e Dervish Mallutes}} – allegorical novel by Kosovar author Teki Dervishi.
*1982: ''Tren 2'' – novel by [[Antonije Isaković]].
*1984: {{lang|sl|Umiranje na obroke}} ('Dying by Installments') ‒ autobiographical book by Slovenian author [[Igor Torkar]], about Goli Otok prison conditions.
*1984: ''Goli Otok: The Island of Death'' ‒ non-fiction book by Bulgarian-Macedonian author [[Venko Markovski]], detailing a history of Goli Otok prison.
*1990: ''Goli Otok'' by [[Dragoslav Mihailović]].
*1993: {{lang|sr|Lov na stenice}} ('Hunting for Bedbugs') by Dragoslav Mihailović.
*1996: {{lang|hr|Goli Otok: stratište duha}} ('Goli Otok: Gallows of the Soul') ‒ non-fiction book by Croatian author [[Mihovil Horvat]], containing the events of his arrest and imprisonment during [[Informbiro period]].
*1997: {{lang|it|Goli Otok: Italiani nel Gulag di Tito}} ('Goli Otok: Italians in Tito's Gulag') ‒ historical report by Italian-Croatian author Giacomo Scotti.<ref name="comune.bologna.it"/>
*1997: {{lang|sr|Zlotvori}} ('Evildoers') – novel by Dragoslav Mihailović.
*1997: ''Tito's Hawaii'' ‒ novel by author using the pen-name Rade Panic (name taken from a political victim of the same name whose wife was interred on the island; not his actual name).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/titos_hawaii/|title=Tito's Hawaii, a novel about Goli Otok|website=www.oocities.org|access-date=7 November 2017}}</ref>
*2005: {{lang|hr|Razglednica s ljetovanja}} ('A Postcard From Summer Vacation') ‒ autobiographical short novel by the Croatian author [[Dubravka Ugrešić]]; published in the [[Belgrade]] literary review ''REČ časopis za književnost i kulturu, i društvena pitanja'', br. 74/20, 2006, and in the book ''Nikog nema doma'', ed. ''devedeset stupnjeva'', [[Zagreb]] 2005. Italian translation ''Cartolina Estiva'' by Luka Zanoni [[Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso]], 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://aestovest.osservatoriobalcani.org/luoghi/pdf/cartolina_estiva_aestovest.pdf|title = Cartolina estiva|date = 2008|website = AestOvest|publisher = [[Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso]]|last = Ugrešić|first = Dubravka}}</ref>
*2010: ''Island of the World'' - novel by Canadian author Michael D. O'Brien.
*2019: ''Life Plays with Me'' (Published in North America as ''More Than I Love My Life'') - novel by [[Israel]]i writer [[David Grossman]]. One of the main characters, Vera, was interned as a political prisoner in Goli Otok before immigrating to Israel.
[[File:Свјетлопис Трга Голооточких жртава у Даниловграду.jpg|thumb|Square of Goli Otok victims in [[Danilovgrad]], Montenegro, pictured 2022.]]
*2023: ''The Secret of Bald Island'' - non-fiction book by Claudia Sonia Colussi Corte, describing her father's (Cherubino Colussi Corte) return to [[Mali Lošinj]], Yugoslavia, as part of the Italian Controesodo, his arrest on suspicion of being a Stalinist, and his imprisonment on Goli Otok during the [[Informbiro period]].<ref>{{url|https://www.academia.edu/103126672/AO_4_Claudia_Sonia_Colussi_Corte_The_Secret_of_Bald_Island_trans_Konrad_Eisenbichler_}}</ref>

==Film and television==
*1996: ''[[The Seventh Chronicle]]'' ({{lang|hr|Sedma kronika}}) – Croatian feature film about a Goli Otok inmate who escapes by swimming to the island of Rab, based on a novel by [[Grgo Gamulin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hrfilm.hr/baza_film.php?id=58|title=Baza HR kinematografije}}</ref>
*2002: ''Eva'' ‒ documentary film told in [[Serbian (language)|German]], [[Hebrew (language)|Hebrew]] and [[English (language)|English]] recounting the experiences of Eva Panić-Nahir, a former prisoner of the island; produced/directed by [[Avner Faingulernt]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4087110/reference|title=Eva|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
*2009: {{lang|de|Strahota - Die Geschichte der Gefängnisinsel Goli Otok}} ‒ [[German (language)|German-language]] documentary film with 8 former prisoners; produced/directed by Reinhard Grabher<ref>{{cite web|url=https://derstandard.at/1240550606200/Die-vergessene-Hoelle-der-Adria|title=Die vergessene Hölle der Adria|work=[[Der Standard]]|first=Markus|last=Peherstorfer|date=5 May 2009|language=de|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref>
*2012: ''Goli Otok'' ‒ documentary film directed by [[Darko Bavoljak]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.havc.hr/hrvatski-film/katalog-hrvatskih-filmova/goli-otok|title=Goli otok|work=havc.hr|language=hr|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref>
*2013: ''Lost Survivors'' ‒ [[Travel Channel]] [[reality television|reality TV]] survival series episode entitled "Prison Island"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/prison-island | title=Travel Channel's ''Lost Survivors'' episode, "Prison Island" partly filmed on Croati's Goli otok island | publisher=travelchannel.com | access-date=17 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226165047/http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/prison-island | archive-date=26 December 2013 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*2014: ''Goli'' – documentary film directed by Tiha K. Gudac<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/kultura/film-i-tv/moja-potraga-za-istinom-o-djedovom-zatocenistvu-na-golom-otoku/693691/|title=Moja potraga za istinom o djedovom zatočeništvu na Golom otoku|date=2 September 2014|work=[[Jutarnji list]]|last=Godeč|first=Željka|language=hr|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref>
*2014: ''In the Name of the People'' ‒ exhibition in Belgrade; with an alphabetical list of 16,500 names of people who were jailed at the Goli Otok available for online search on [http://goliotok.uimenaroda.net/ their website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417074936/https://www.goliotok.uimenaroda.net/ |date=2024-04-17 }}
*2019: ''Mysteries of the Abandoned'' ‒ Season 4 Episode 9 "Haunting on Plague Island"<ref>{{Citation|title=Mysteries of the Abandoned (TV Series 2017– ) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6823138/episodes?season=4|access-date=2021-12-02}}</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book|url=http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/6836/1/Previ%C5%A1i%C4%87,%20Martin.pdf |title=Povijest informbiroovskog logora na Golom otoku 1949. –1956. |trans-title=History of the Goli Otok Cominformist Prison Camp 1949. – 1956. |author-last=Previšić |author-first=Martin |author-link=Martin Previšić |year=2014 |publisher=[[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb]] |language=hr |access-date=30 July 2018}}
* {{cite journal|url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/134023 |title=Broj kažnjenika na Golom otoku i drugim logorima za informbirovce u vrijeme sukoba sa SSSR-om (1948.-1956.) |trans-title=The Number of Convicts on Goli Otok and other Internment Camps during the Informbiro period (1948 – 1956) |journal=Historijski zbornik |volume=66 |issue=1 |date=February 2015 |author-last=Previšić |author-first=Martin |author-link=Martin Previšić |pages=173–193 |language=hr |format=PDF |access-date=27 July 2018}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJ8rN0qlOa0C |title=The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990 |editor-first=Harold B. |editor-last=Segel |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |year=2012 |isbn=9780822978022}}

==Further reading==
*[https://hrcak.srce.hr/174396 Ekohistorijski aspekti proučavanja logora na Golom otoku 1949.-1956.]
*https://www.lopar.com/hrv/turisticka_ponuda/izleti/goli_otok.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608201432/https://www.lopar.com/hrv/turisticka_ponuda/izleti/goli_otok.php |date=2019-06-08 }}
*{{cite journal|doi=10.1093/jsh/shw013|doi-access=free|title=The Pedagogy of Workers' Self-Management: Terror, Therapy, and Reform Communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split|first=Ana|last=Antić|journal=Journal of Social History|volume=50|issue=1|date=1 September 2016|pages=179–203|hdl=10871/33111|hdl-access=free}}
*{{cite book|last=Previšić|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Previšić|title=Povijest Golog otoka|year=2019|language=hr|publisher=Fraktura|isbn=978-953266988-6}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Goli otok}}
*[http://www.goli-otok.hr www.goli-otok.hr]
*[http://www.goli-otok.com www.goli-otok.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070103180258/http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/europe/yugoslavia.html Comparative criminology | Europe - Yugoslavia]
*''Goli Otok: Hell in the Adriatic'' is the true story of Josip Zoretic's tragic experience and survival as a political prisoner of the former Yugoslavia's most notorious prison, Goli Otok, and the circumstances that led to his imprisonment [http://www.goliotok.com]

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