Yugoslavism between the world wars

Indecisive nation building

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11047744
AutoresPieter Troch (0000-0002-3009-7240, Ghent University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas227-244
Fecha de publicación2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905990903517819
OpenAlexW2012081133
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas7

This article examines Yugoslav national programs of ruling political elites and its concrete implementation in education policy in interwar Yugoslavia. It is argued that at the beginning of the period Yugoslavism was not inherently incompatible with or subordinate to Serbian, Croatian or to a lesser degree Slovenian national ideas. However, the concrete ways in which Yugoslavism was formulated and adopted by ruling elites discredited the Yugoslav national idea and resulted in increasing delineation and polarization in the continuum of national ideas available in Yugoslavia. Throughout the three consecutive periods of political rule under scrutiny, ruling elites failed to reach a wider consensus regarding the Yugoslav national idea or to create a framework within which a constructive elaboration of Yugoslav national identity could take place. By the end of the interwar period, the Yugoslav national idea had become linked exclusively to conservatism, centralism, authoritarianism and, for non-Serbian elites at least, Serbian hegemony. Other national ideas gained significance as ideas providing viable alternatives for the regime's Yugoslavism

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Hegemony · Nation-building · National identity · National Question · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Serbian · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Central European national history · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Public Administration