The South Slav Question and the World War

Dr. Ivo Pilar, the author of the book The South Slav Question and the World War

The South Slavic Question and the World War (secondary title: Clear presentation of the overall problem ) is a book by the Croatian economist , sociologist and historian Ivo Pilar . The first edition of the work was performed in 1918 in Vienna under the authors pseudonym L. [eo] v. [On] Southland.

The 796-page book presents the history of the Croatians , Serbs and Bosniaks from a national Croatian perspective. a. the warning against a Yugoslavia , as this could only lead to a Greater Serbia . Possession of the book was therefore prohibited in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . The first edition was allegedly largely bought up and destroyed by the Yugoslav secret service. This has made it a bibliographic rarity.

In 1933 Ivo Pilar, under the author's pseudonym Florian Lichtträger, published the book Always again Serbia: Yugoslavia's fateful hour , in which he denounced the grievances of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and advocated a federal system against the Serbian royal dictatorship . Shortly after the release, Pilar was found shot dead in his apartment in Zagreb .

In the war year 1944 a commented second edition of the South Slavic question was published. The comments are written in accordance with the policy of the then existing fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a vassal state of the Axis powers .

translation

In 1943 the translation and edition into the Croatian language took place . The translator Fedor Pucek was executed by shooting by Tito partisans in 1945 . Shortly before the beginning of the Croatian War in 1990, a reprint of the Croatian edition appeared, published by a right-wing Croatian party.

expenditure

L. v. Südland: The South Slavic Question and the World War: Clear presentation of the overall problem . Manzsche KuK court, publishing and university bookstore, Vienna 1918.
L. v. Südland: Južnoslavensko pitanje: Prikaz cjelokupnog pitanja . Zagreb 1943 (translated and edited by Fedor Pucek).
L. v. Südland: The South Slavic Question and the World War: Clear presentation of the overall problem . Matica hrvatska , Zagreb 1944 (annotated and edited edition).
L. v. Südland: Južnoslavensko pitanje: Prikaz cjelokupnog pitanja . Hrvatska Demokratska Stranka / Podružnica Varaždin, Zagreb / Varaždin 1990 (reprint of the 1943 edition).
Ivo Pilar: A History of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia . Ed .: Working group for ethnic groups and minority issues (= Heiligenhofer Studies on Ethnicity Issues ). Heilighof-Bad Kissingen 1995, ISBN 3-926038-23-3 (Abridged and edited by Michael Ackermann).

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Ivo Pilar: A History of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia . Ed .: Working group for ethnic groups and minority issues (= Heiligenhofer Studies on Ethnicity Issues ). Heilighof-Bad Kissingen 1995, ISBN 3-926038-23-3 , p. 9–15 (Abridged and edited by Michael Ackermann).

Web links

Digitized first edition (various reading and download formats). Retrieved March 8, 2013 .

Individual evidence

^ Günter Schödl: Croatian National Policy and "Jugoslavenstvo": Studies on national integration and regional politics in Croatia-Dalmatia at the beginning of the 20th century (= Southeast European Works, Volume 89 ). Oldenbourg Verlag, 1990, ISBN 978-3-486-55301-7 , pp. 112 .
↑ Aleksandar Jakir: Dalmatia between the world wars: Agrarian and urban way of life and the failure of Yugoslav integration . Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-56447-1 , pp. 109 (footnote 6).
↑ Walter M. Markov, Fritz Klein (Professor Dr. sc. Phil.), Irene Markov: Fundamentals of Balkan diplomacy: A contribution to the history of the relationships of dependency . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-933240-97-2 , p. XXXI (footnote no.50).

[1] Günter Schödl: Croatian National Policy and "Jugoslavenstvo": Studies on national integration and regional politics in Croatia-Dalmatia at the beginning of the 20th century (= Southeast European Works, Volume 89 ). Oldenbourg Verlag, 1990, ISBN 978-3-486-55301-7 , pp. 112 .

[2] Aleksandar Jakir: Dalmatia between the world wars: Agrarian and urban way of life and the failure of Yugoslav integration . Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-56447-1 , pp. 109 (footnote 6).

[3] Walter M. Markov, Fritz Klein (Professor Dr. sc. Phil.), Irene Markov: Fundamentals of Balkan diplomacy: A contribution to the history of the relationships of dependency . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-933240-97-2 , p. XXXI (footnote no.50).