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Nacionalna mobilizacija i homogenizacija - žrtvovanje Jugoslavije
National Mobilisation and Homogenisation - Sacrifice of Yugoslavia

Author(s): Milojica M. Šutović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Centar za unapređivanje pravnih studija
Keywords: national mobilisation and homogenisation; Yugoslavia; ethnic state; Serbia; Slovenia; constitutional question; national sentiment; clientelism; conversion of communism-nationalism; nomenclature; power; sacrifice of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: By legitimisation of ethnic states, the public proclamation that Yugoslavia is unacceptable and impossible, historically worn out and by unbending in pretensions of all nationalism in Yugoslavia, the process of internal homogenisation and mobilisation of nations successfully began in order to establish the full sovereignty and consolidation of ethnic states. This proved to be fatal for the survival of the joint state regardless of modalities for its reorganisation which were at the end only the mask of real autochthon national aspirations. Yugoslavia was sacrificed since it could not fit into that framework. The process of national mobilisation and homogenisation most clearly took place in the escalating Serbian nationalism by subjecting all other forms of identity to the national sentiment as well as by mutation of the class system into the national, by conversion of communist bureaucrats into nationalist heads within the social structure and framework which enabled the action of old/new nomenclature and its despise towards civil values and institution. A parallel process happened in Slovenia, reflecting itself in other republics and assisting the national parties to win and consolidate their power. This was the syndrome of illness of Yugoslavia and its last phase as well as the presumption of its end and break-up.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 95-126
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Serbian