Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.20.4.11
Party of Rights' Youth at the Croatian University on the Eve of World War I
Mislav GABELICA
orcid.org/0000-0001-8769-3599
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
The subject of this paper is the Party of Rights' ideology on
the eve of the First World War, on the basis of the Party of
Rights' academic youths' activity at the Croatian university in
the stated period. The author starts from an assumption that
the political parties in Croatia on the eve of the First World War did not essentially differ with regard to the constitutional
position of Croatia within the Monarchy, but according to
their relation towards the position of the Serbs inside the
Croatian nation. The second hypothesis is that their
standpoint concerning the Serbs was mainly conditioned by
their opinion regarding the joining of Croatian countries into
the community with Serbia. The author therefore observes
three types of the mentioned relationship. Some parties,
mostly those of Yugoslav national-political orientation, craved
for complete equality of Croats and Serbs in Croatia. A part
of the Party of Right, which on the eve of the war accepted
the possible realization of Croatian statehood even in the
Yugoslav context, accepted the existence of Serbs within the
Croatian political nation. The other part of the Party of Right,
which unconditionally rejected the Yugoslav framework,
continued with the non-recognition of the Serbs' existence in
Croatia, considering them to be a group of non-Serbian,
Vlach origin.
Keywords
Party of Rights' ideology; Party of Rights' youth; Serbs; Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy; First World War
Hrčak ID:
75866
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2011.
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