Nationalism and Yugoslavia : education, Yugoslavism and the Balkans before World War II / / by Pieter Troch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814550803321
• Autore: Troch Pieter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-7556-2153-0; 0-85772-850-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: International Library of Historical Studies ; ; 95
• Disciplina: 949.7021
• Soggetti: Education - Political aspects - Yugoslavia - History - 20th century; Nationalism - Yugoslavia - History - 20th century; European history; Yugoslavia History 1918-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part 1 The Framework: Yugoslavism, Politics, and Education; 2. Yugoslavism and the Politics of Interwar Yugoslavia; 3. Modernity will be Yugoslav: The Organisation of the Yugoslav Education System; Part 2 The Possibilities: The Inclusive Approach to Yugoslav National Identity; 4. The Serbo-Croato-Slovenian National Language; 5. Merging 'Tribal' Histories; 6. Making Sense of the Yugoslav National Territory; 7. Religious Diversity and Yugoslav Nationhood; Conclusion; Part 3 The Limitations: Exclusionary Understandings of Yugoslav Nationhood8. The Divisive Use of Yugoslavism in Historical and Religious Commemorations; 9. The Popular Resonance of Nationhood: Yugoslav Teachers as National Educators; 10. The Comparative and Long-Term Significance of Interwar Yugoslav Nation Building; Notes; Bibliography; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: "Created after World War I, 'Yugoslavia' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples - Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins - in addition to non-Slav minorities. The Great Powers and the country's intellectual and political elites believed that a ; coherent identity could be formed in which the different South Slav groups in the state could identify with a single Balkan Yugoslav identity. Pieter Troch draws on previously unpublished sources from the domain of education to show how the state's nationalities policy initially allowed for a flexible and inclusive Yugoslav nationhood, and how that system was slowly replaced with a more domineering and rigid 'top-down' nationalism during the dictatorship of King Alexander I - who banned political parties and coded a strongly politicised Yugoslav national identity. As Yugoslav society became increasingly split between the 'pro-Yugoslav' central regime and 'anti-Yugoslav' opposition, the seeds were sown for the failure of the Yugoslav idea. Nationalism and Yugoslavia provides a valuable new insight into the complexities of pre-war Yugoslavia."--Bloomsbury Publishing.