Izvorni znanstveni članak
Culture between the Slovenes and Croats and Politics
Igor GRDINA
; Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, Ljubljana
Sažetak
Cultural and political contacts between Slovenes and Croats in the 19th and
20th centuries were greatly marked by diversity of political framework in
the Habsburg Monarchy where the majority of Slovenes and Croats lived
until l918. The neighbouring nations created basically different “ideals” and
“imaginations”: Slovenes stated their demands mainly on the basis of
natural law, whereas Croats derived them from the interpretation of history
(differences are obvious from the JurËiË and KumiËiÊ romanesque
thematisation of Zrinjsko-Frankopan conspiracy). This also affected different
strategies of cultural development and its relations with the politics. It was
not unusual for Slovenian cultural workers — particularly writers — to
be involved in politics until the end of the 20th century while Croats
distinctively divided those two domains of public life. Different
circumstances (relatively extended right to vote in Austria, early
introduction of direct elections into the Reichsrat, development of
autonomous authorities and public life, high level of literacy; restrictive
right to vote in Croatia, representation in Budapest parliament by delegates
of the Croatian Sabor, high level of illiteracy) made contacts before 1918
between Croats and Slovenes dependent mostly on personal initiative; they
arose to institutional level relatively late — considering a great number of
Slovenian intellectuals who in the second half of the 19th century lived and
worked among Croats. The creation of joint Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian
state in 1918 did not lead to abolition of independency of individual
national cultures that were, by then, completely formed. Croats and
Slovenes were in accordance with their needs involved in political and
cultural movements in Europe; this was not affected only by linguistic
diversity but also by personal comprehension of historical experiences. The
two nations therefore independently formed visions of future. Thus various integration movements, which at times emerged in national politics, did not
have serious effect. Despite cultural diversity among the nations in the
Yugoslav state, and different assumptions of supporters of unitarism, culture
proved to be the generator of positive changes between Slovenes and
Croats, especially immediately before the World War I and World War II.
Nevertheless it encouraged greater participation between the neighbouring
nations before the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
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Hrčak ID:
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Datum izdavanja:
10.12.2009.
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