U potrazi za izmišljenom stvarnošću: Jugoslovenski identitet u časopisu Jugosloven 1931–1932
The Quest for the Invented Reality: Yugoslav Identity in the journal „The Yugoslav“ 1931–1932

Summary/Abstract: The pe­riod of the royal dic­ta­tor­ship in Yugo­sla­via (1929–1934) was cha­rac­te­ri­zed with the qu­est for cul­tu­ral con­cepts to abo­sul­ti­ze the ide­o­logy thro­ugh the im­po­si­tion of the one-si­ded un­der­stan­ding of the po­li­ti­cal aspect of art.. Ho­we­ver, not even the de­ci­si­ve sup­por­ters of the Yugo­slav idea we­re of sha­red opi­nion re­gar­ding the me­ans and the pa­ce of the cul­tu­ral uni­fi­ca­tion. Both scho­larly and pu­bli­cist hi­sto­ri­o­graphy was en­ga­ged in pro­ving the an­ci­ent cha­rac­ter of Yugo­sla­vism, si­de­trac­king hen­ce its real de­ve­lop­ment in the 20th cen­tury. Ti­re­less po­li­ti­cal ac­ti­vity of Jo­van Sker­lić or the fun­cti­o­ning of the Yugo­slav Bo­ard we­re not su­bjects of analysis, le­a­ving out of the sight the most fru­it­ful epoch of the Yugo­slav idea. That was ca­u­sing the lack of con­sci­o­u­sness and know­led­ge of the real im­por­tan­ce of the idea in the eve of the First World War and du­ring the war. Anthro­po­logy was em­ployed in or­der to emp­ha­si­ze the ho­mo­ge­ne­ity of the „Yugo­slav ra­ce“. In or­der to fa­mi­li­a­ri­ze the po­pu­la­tion with such con­cept, the­re was an on­go­ing qu­est for the so­cial stra­ta which co­uld be re­ac­hed with such ide­o­logy (f.e, the po­pu­la­tion of Mu­slim ori­gin). The at­tempt was al­so ma­de to re­vi­ta­li­ze the po­li­ti­cal li­fe by cre­a­ting a pre­ten­se of po­li­ti­cal par­ti­es to ca­ter to the eco­no­mi­cal and so­cial ne­eds of the so­ci­ety. All tho­se ac­ti­ons we­re fol­lo­wed with the strong ide­o­lo­gi­cal thrust in the re­alm of lan­gu­a­ge, with the pur­po­se of sha­ping the com­mu­ni­ca­tion bet­we­en the go­vern­ment and the mas­ses. Such lan­gu­a­ge was de­fi­ci­ent in for­mu­la­ting the ide­o­lo­gi­cal go­als, which was a con­se­qu­en­ce of the com­pe­ti­tion bet­we­en the con­cepts of re­sol­ving the cul­tu­ral and po­li­ti­cal pro­blems of the sta­te. The un­sol­va­ble pro­blems that the ide­o­logy of the in­te­gral Yugo­sla­vism was fa­cing are analyzed in all the ar­tic­les in the jo­ur­nal Ju­go­slo­ven (The Yugol­sav). The pro­blems co­uld not be sol­ved in part due to the di­scord in the ranks of Yugo­sla­vists, and partly due to the ina­bi­lity to se­cu­re the strong sta­te and uni­fied na­tion thro­ugh the one-si­ded ide­o­lo­gi­cal im­po­si­tion. The ac­ti­vity of this short-li­ved jo­ur­nal is an in­di­rect pro­of of the un­gro­un­ded cha­rac­ter of the Yugo­slav ide­o­logy in so­ci­ally he­te­ro­ge­ne­o­us, tra­di­ti­o­nal so­ci­ety of the King­dom of Yugo­sla­via.

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