Bošnjaci i antifašizam: rezolucije građanske hrabrosti (1941) i savremenost
BOSNIACS AND ANTIFASCISM: REZOLUTIONS OF CIVIL COURAGE (1941) AND MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: The more recent past period of the former Yugoslav state and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the problems of “dark past”, draw attention in “historiography of transition”. Bosniacs’ history, exposed to rigid understanding and ideological matrices from certain academic circles, not only in environment, was rarely interpreted with a number of prejudices and stereotypes, with unfounded conclusions. Generalizations usually mislead us, so encouraged by the politics needs, violently connect the deformed past with present, its interests and challenges. There are, not only in regional circles, resistances towards rational reconstructions, questionings and re-actualizations of “controversial” themes, since they correspond to the canned images, Manichean assessments and dogmatic terminology. The lack of will to overcome the situation is the consequence of discriminatory position in those more or less limited historiographies, pressed by the weights of daily politics and outdated research conceptions. Numerous questions connected to the Second World War and Bosniacs’ antifascism, besides post-war ideological premises and “official truths”, remain marginalized to a varying extend. One of those current scientific multi-perspective problems is deideologized relationship to the antifascist, “Muslim resolutions” against genocide of the Jews, Serbs and Gypsies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, introduced in late summer of 1941 in a few towns (Prijedor, Sarajevo, Mostar, Banjaluka, Bijeljina, Tuzla), in unenviable situation of occupation, total risk and uncertainty. The basis of antifascism contains, in some way showed by these resolutions, the deepest human law, right to life, freedom and equality of individuals and national communities.

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