Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.23.1.09
Political Circumstances in Croatia at the Beginning of the First World War
Mislav Gabelica
orcid.org/0000-0001-8769-3599
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
On the bases of relevant literature, newspaper articles and
authentic documents dating from the beginning of the First
World War, the author made an effort to answer the question
whether the accusations of the military authorities against the
Croat-Serb coalition were justified. In other words, the goal
of this work is to establish whether it is right to claim that the
eminent members of the Coalition "undoubtedly leant
towards high treason". After the analysis, the author
presumes that it is accurate to say that most of the eminent
members of the Coalition were, in the period before the
breakout of the First World War, linked to institutions which
were based on the Greater-Serbian idea. The author notices
that the civil authorities in Croatia not only failed to institute
legal proceedings against them, but also ignored to hold
them politically accountable and intervened on their behalf.
The author concludes that the above mentioned observations
reflect the conjugation between the Greater-Hungarian and
Greater-Serbian idea, which was formerly noticed by the
Croatian historian, sociologist and political scientist Ivo Pilar.
Keywords
First World War; Croatian government; military authorities; Croat-Serb coalition
Hrčak ID:
121884
URI
Publication date:
1.3.2014.
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