Zdenko Radelić (Maribor, 20 May 1954) is a Croatian historian. After graduating, he worked for a short time in education, and from 1982 until his retirement in 2019, he worked at the Institute for the History of the Workers’ Movement (today the Croatian Institute of History) in Zagreb. Since 1990, he has participated in the project “Establishment of the Party Monopoly 1945-1952”. He has collaborated and led various scientific research projects such as “Social Development of Croatia 1929-1971”, “Creation of the Republic of Croatia and the Homeland War (1990-1995-1998)” and “Croatia in the 20th Century: Modernization in Conditions of Pluralism and Monism”. He is the author of several scientific monographs