Nationalism and Yugoslavia: Education, Yugoslavism and the Balkans before World War II
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN13:
9781350153998
$51.66
Created after World War I, 'Yugoslavia' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples - Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins - in addition to non-Slav minorities. The Great Powers and the country's intellectual and political elites believed that a coherent identity could be formed in which the different South Slav groups in the state could identify with a single Balkan Yugoslav identity. Pieter Troch draws on previously unpublished sources from the domain of education to show how the state's nationalities policy initially allowed for a flexible and inclusive Yugoslav nationhood, and how that system was slowly replaced with a more domineering and rigid 'top-down' nationalism during the dictatorship of King Alexander I - who banned political parties and coded a strongly politicised Yugoslav national identity. As Yugoslav society became increasingly split between the 'pro-Yugoslav' central regime and 'anti-Yugoslav' opposition, the seeds were sown for the failure of the Yugoslav idea. Nationalism and Yugoslavia provides a valuable new insight into the complexities of pre-war Yugoslavia.
- | Author: Pieter Troch
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- | Publication Date: March 19, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 328 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1350153990
- | ISBN-13: 9781350153998
- Author:
- Pieter Troch
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- March 19, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 328 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1350153990
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350153998