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ANTUN GUSTAV MATOŠ AND THE YUGOSLAV QUESTION: A HISTORICAL-POLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

Rino Džanko orcid.org/0009-0006-4196-7295

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In this paper I tried to explore how Antun Gustav Matoš actually viewed Serbia and the Yugoslav idea in the turbulent years before the First World War. His views were not some fixed theory; they were constantly changing under the influence of the Party of Rights ideology (pravaštvo), but even more under the influence of the ten years he spent as an émigré in Belgrade. Above all, they changed through his personal experience at a given moment. Through the analysis and comparison of the works of Tomislav Jonjić and Nenad Prokić, the paper presents Matoš as someone who was constantly torn. On the one hand, he admired Serbian energy, and on the other, he was deeply afraid that the Yugoslav project, if realized, would swallow Croatian identity and statehood in favor of Belgrade. My aim was to present Matoš not as some kind of systematic politician, but as a combative polemicist whose writing best illustrates how complex and emotionally charged Croatian-Serbian relations were at the time.

Ključne riječi

Antun Gustav Matoš, pravaštvo, Serbia, the Yugoslav idea, political journalism, Croatian-Serbian relations, Croatian political thought

Hrčak ID:

345098

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/345098

Datum izdavanja:

4.3.2026.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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