Југославија, да или не? Српска интелектуална елита и уједињење 1918. године

Abstract

Саопштење у сажетом обиму показује ставове о потреби стварања заједничке државе Срба, Хрвата и Словенаца које је заступао значајни део интелектуалне елите Србије, као што су председници Српске краљевске академије, угледни професори Београдског универзитета, научници, и др. Анализа обухвата њихова мишљења и конкретне учинке уочи и током Првог светског рата до тренутка уједињења 1918.године. Истраживало се да ли су били за стварање уједињене државе Јужних Словена и са којим аргументима су заступали ту идеју.

h is work analyses whether and which members of Serbian intellectual elite (academics, university professors) were in favor of the idea of the need for unifi cation of the South Slavs (Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) into joint state. Majority of them, based on their expertise and titles they were holding, were in favor of creating joint state even before the World War I, respecting the fact that it would also resolve the Serbian national question, having in mind that the Serbs were living mixed with other South Slav peoples. An important argument for supporting the idea was the knowledge about ethnographic propinquity of these peoples, similarities (or sameness) of their languages, culture and history. Presence of the Yugoslav idea in Serbian public led the Government of Kingdom of Serbia to set the unifi cation as its war goal. In the analysis, group of top-notch intellectuals was examined (among them, two war-time and two post-war presidents of the Royal Serbian Academy) who were supporting this idea in various ways during the war, either for the needs of the government, or because of their personal beliefs. Th ey had diff erent opinions about the organization of the state, because some of them were in favor of centralized state, while others were in favor of federal state. Th e number of those who were against creation of the joint state was negligible, so the answer to this question is – intellectual elite of Serbia was in favor of creation of the joint state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, meaning that they accepted the idea which was materialized. Changes of their stances which occurred later were not topic of this analysis.