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Political Views of Dr Ivo Pilar 1918 —1933 Serbia Again and Again: A Radical Turn or a Consistent Continuation of Pilar's Political Thought?
Tomislav JONJIĆ
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Contrary to notions which were prevalent for a long time also in the
professional public, available parts of Dr Ivo Pilar's legacy and smaller texts
which he published after 1918 show that Pilar was also — during the last
fifteen years of his life — deeply involved in political events, not only as
an observer and analyst, but also as a thinker and an ideologist. As a result
of that, the emergence of his book Immer wieder Serbien: Jugoslawiens
Schicksalsstunde in Berlin in 1933 was not in fact a surprise either.
Analysing Pilar's political views from 1918 to 1933 and his attempts to —
during that period — influence Croatian political life, the author arrives at a
conclusion that the aforementioned Pilar's book is no deviation from his
earlier ideas. On the contrary, it is a logical continuation of Pilar's
geopolitical, anthropological, sociological and historiographic studies. In it,
he also shows that the majority of difficulties of the Croatian political
position in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia stem from the geopolitical position
of Croatian lands, and from the complex web of historical, religious and
sociological causes. Although it was written at the time of the hidden royal
dictatorship, when the resistance towards the Belgrade regime and the
Yugoslav state was increasingly more powerful and radical, Pilar's book
reveals him as a sober and composed analyst of reality, who does not
conform to political fashion or the current mood of the masses. He remains
firmly convinced that the freedom and prosperity of the Croatian nation are
guaranteed only in an independent Croatian state. But, in the then present
day situation, when European world powers absolutely opposed Croatia's
independence (and there were also powerful tendencies which even
opposed the federalisation of the Yugoslav state), the declaration of
independent Croatia would have been premature and potentially
catastrophic: Croatia would not be able to include Bosnia and Herzegovina
(which Pilar considered the key to the solution of the Croatian question),
and without it, Croatia would be doomed to fall prey to imperialistically
disposed neighbours. It is why Pilar recommends a gradual, evolutionary
path, while simultaneously, a more intensive organisation of Croatian
political, economic and cultural life.
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Datum izdavanja:
1.6.2010.
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