Yugoslavism
Yugoslavism ( Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian jugoslavenstvo ) is the ideology of the union of the southern Slavs , based on Illyrism . Yugoslavism is based on the idea of a particularly close linguistic , cultural and thus also political and state kinship or relationship. Its broadest form extends theoretically to all southern Slavs, but was actually limited to the southern Slavs within the Habsburg Monarchy or the former Yugoslavia . In contrast, there is pseudo-Yugoslavism, which is supposed to cover up a striving for supremacy of one of the South Slavic nations .
Over time, Yugoslavism has been subject to various interpretations, especially with regard to the views on the number of so-called "tribes", i.e. ethnicities or nations, and their togetherness, the question of the common name, the nature of their relationships and the extent of their similarities and differences.
The two practical implementations of Yugoslavism were based on the assumption that there is either a unified South Slavic nation in which the ethnic groups ( Serbs , Croats , etc.) are at best regional but not nations (see First Yugoslavia ) or there is an association of closely related ones South Slavic nations, which are fundamentally equal (see Second Yugoslavia ).
The members of Yugoslavism or a Yugoslav state are called Yugoslavs .
literature
- Holm Sundhaussen : Yugoslavism . In: Konrad Clewing, Holm Sundhaussen (Ed.): Lexicon for the history of Southeast Europe . Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-78667-2 , p. 447-449 .
- Dunja Melčić: Yugoslavism and its end . In: Dunja Melčić (Ed.): The Yugoslavia War: Handbook on Prehistory, Course and Consequences . 2nd updated and expanded edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-33219-2 , p. 210-231 .
- Srećko M. Džaja : The Political Reality of Yugoslavism (1918–1991) . Oldenbourg, 2002, ISBN 3-486-56659-8 .