Political Circumstances in Croatia at the Beginning of the First World War Cover Image

Političke prilike u Banskoj Hrvatskoj na početku Prvoga svjetskog rata
Political Circumstances in Croatia at the Beginning of the First World War

Author(s): Mislav Gabelica
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: First World War; Croatian government; military authorities; Croat-Serb coalition

Summary/Abstract: On the bases of relevant literature, newspaper articles and authentic documents dating from the beginning of the First World War, the author made an effort to answer the question whether the accusations of the military authorities against the Croat-Serb coalition were justified. In other words, the goal of this work is to establish whether it is right to claim that the eminent members of the Coalition "undoubtedly leant towards high treason". After the analysis, the author presumes that it is accurate to say that most of the eminent members of the Coalition were, in the period before the breakout of the First World War, linked to institutions which were based on the Greater-Serbian idea. The author notices that the civil authorities in Croatia not only failed to institute legal proceedings against them, but also ignored to hold them politically accountable and intervened on their behalf. The author concludes that the above mentioned observations reflect the conjugation between the Greater-Hungarian and Greater-Serbian idea, which was formerly noticed by the Croatian historian, sociologist and political scientist Ivo Pilar.

  • Issue Year: 23/2014
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 177-197
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Croatian