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BETWEEN SERBIA AND CROATIA: SVETOZAR PRIBICEVIC IN THE EYES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Summary/Abstract: The article documents the presentation of attitudes and opinions of the contemporaries - the Croats, the Serbs from Vojvodina and the Serbs from Serbia, on Svetozar Pribicevic, the political leader of the Serbs from Croatia, the Minister of the Interior and Education in the Kingdom of SCS. The analysis has shown that Svetozar Pribicevic was basically persona non grata everywhere, among the Croats and the Serbs from Croatia, Vojvodina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as among the Serbs from Serbia. The authors mostly judged unfavorably his personality and his political work. The Croatian side most often described him as „a great Serb”, a man that had drawn Croatia into Yugoslavia, against the will of most Croats after which he imposed the hegemonic regime over the Croatians. The Serbs from Vojvodina, except those who were his supporters, collaborators, friends and familiy, were inclined to hold him responsible for the tension that characterized the relations between the Serbs and the Croats. In the eyes of the Serbs from Serbia, regardless of their political orientation, the leader of independent democrats was one of the main barriers on the path of creating cordial and friendly relations between the Serbian and Croatian people. More or less openly, all authors expressed discontent with the authoritative nature of his personality and his extremely emphatic desire for power that made him unprincipled and inconsistent in carrying out his political concepts.

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