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Interactive nationhood: the relation between C roatian and Y ugoslav national identity in the interwar period
Author(s) -
Troch Pieter
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/nana.12045
Subject(s) - national identity , identity (music) , relation (database) , state (computer science) , authoritarianism , interwar period , political science , period (music) , dismissal , sociology , ethnology , economic history , law , history , world war ii , philosophy , politics , aesthetics , democracy , algorithm , database , computer science
C roatian and Y ugoslav national identity have been closely connected throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. This article questions the assumption that C roatian national identification inherently opposed the Y ugoslav nationalising efforts of the interwar Y ugoslav state by means of a study of commemorative activities. In the commemoration of the millennial anniversary of the C roatian K ingdom in 1925, the Y ugoslav level of national identity was activated as a complement to C roatian national identity. During the 1930s, commemorations of M atija G ubec and the I llyrian movement conveyed a mutually exclusive relation between C roatian and Y ugoslav national identity. I argue that the dismissal of grassroots C roatian historical commemorations that were indifferent but not averse to Y ugoslav nationhood in the integral Y ugoslav policy of the authoritarian state during the 1930s curtailed the potential of these commemorations as vehicles for Y ugoslav national identification and complicated the concurrence of C roatian and Y ugoslav nationhood.