Slovene and Croat Politicians and Their Concept of Trialism in the Years Preceding the First World War Cover Image

Trialistične zamisli slovenskih in hrvaških politikov v letih pred prvo svetovno vojno
Slovene and Croat Politicians and Their Concept of Trialism in the Years Preceding the First World War

Author(s): Andrej Rahten
Subject(s): History of ideas, Political history, Government/Political systems, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Geopolitics
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: trialism; political programs; politics; Yugoslav question; Slovenia; Croatia;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the Slovene and Croat concept of triadism in the years preceding the First World War. The author answers the question as to how a demanded third – Southern Slavic - state unit would look according to the Slovene and Croat politicians of the time, in the event of the Habsburg Empire being reconstructed in a triadist sense. He concludes that the idea of a Greater Croatian state unit had the widest support among the triadist plans. Such a state unit would be strongly Catholic in character and integrated on the principle of 'centralised federalism' as applied in the Greater Austria.

  • Issue Year: 39/1999
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 65-74
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovenian