Slovenes and Yugoslavia, 1918-1991
Slovenes and Yugoslavia, 1918-1991
Author(s): Peter VodopivecSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Slovenes; Yugoslavia; 1918-1991; disintegration of Austria-Hungary; rise of Yugoslavia; central government;
Summary/Abstract: The French scholar Louis Leger, in the eyes of his admirers "one of the oldest friends of the Slavs" in Western Europe, predicted the disintegration of Austria-Hungary and the rise of Yugoslavia in his 1915 book La Liquidation de l'Autriche-Hongrie. But he stated that an "Illyrian Federation" would only be successful if it were organized as "some form of Slavic Switzerland," composed of autonomous cantons, which would be made up of "the Slovene lands, Croatia, Dalmatia, central Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade, as the seat of the central government, should have the same role as Bern in the 'Helvetian community.'" The Nis Declaration, with which Serbia proclaimed the founding of a strong "Serb-Croat-Slovene state" as its war aim, was in Leger's eyes a significant political act, but he cautioned the Serbs about the Swiss "confederative" model, warning them not to have overzealous Piedmontian or unitarist ambitions. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 06/1992
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 220-241
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
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