ЈЕДАН ИСТОРИЈСКИ ОСВРТ НА СТВАРАЊЕ ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКЕ ДРЖАВЕ У TOKУ ПРВОГ СВЕТСКОГ РАТА
A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE CREATION OF YUGOSLAV STATE IN COURSE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: The article contains a review of political circumstances preceding the unification of Yugoslav peoples into a common state, of the way of that unification and on consequences of both of these factors regarding the political situation in the new Yugoslav state in course of its existence. Although prior to the breaking out of the First World War Yugoslav peoples, regardless of the fact of whether they had an independent state (the case of Serbia and of Montenegro), or not (Austro-Hungarian Yugoslavs), were unified in their intention to create their own common state (of course, with different views as to the state order of future state), the attitude of the allied states, namely of heir governments, went through different stages, until it reached agreement at the end of the First World War that there is a need of creation of a separate Yugoslav state. Although the most significant projects of unification were the Corfu Declaration and the Geneva Agreement, the very unification was not effected on the ground of these acts. Following were the facts which have determined the way of unification: the creation of a new state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs out of Yugoslav countries which wer under the Austro-Hungarian rule; the decision of the Novi Sad Assembly on joining of Vojvodina to Serbia; the decision of the Podgorica Assembly on the unification of Montenegro with Serbia. The unification of the state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with the Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro has been performed as a unilateral act of the heir to the throne — regent who proclaimed „the unification between Serbia and the independent state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs into the unified Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" — on December 1, 1918. The circumstances which preceded the unification and the way of its putting into effect have expressed their impact over the entire political and constitutional life of the new state, which ceased to exist, in terms of the constitutional law, in course of the liberation war and socialist revolution in the country (1914—1945).

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