Geopolitički zaokret liberalnih slovenskih krugova u Primorskoj pred Prvi svjetski rat

Abstract

Autor analizira pisanje primorskih slovenskih liberalnih novina u vrijeme balkanskih ratova 1912. i 1913., prikazuje geopolitičke stavove toga političkoga kruga te ga smješta u širi kontekst sukoba različitih vizija jugoslavenstva. Specifičan položaj primorskih Slovenaca i geopolitičko značenje Trsta odrazili su se na naklonjenost toga dijela Slovenaca što širemu južnoslavenskom konceptu, koji je trebao biti poluga za slovensku političku emancipaciju. Isprva se taj dio Slovenaca zauzima za ujedinjenje južnoslavenskih naroda unutar Habsburške Monarhije, no analizirano razdoblje donosi preokret koji se očituje u ispuštanju habsburškoga okvira u prvom krugu balkanskih ratova. Drugi je pak krug prouzročio isključivanje Bugarske iz južnoslavenskih koncepata, čime se dio primorskih Slovenaca priklanja užoj viziji južnoslavenske državne ideje sa Srbijom u središnjoj ulozi.

From Bitter Enemies to Political Partners: Shifting Viewpoints of Slovenian Clericals and Liberals during World War I

“…44 Considering the subsequent role of Italy in the war, it sounds paradoxical that Italians from Gorizia even organized 'patriotic' rallies in 1914 at which pro-Austrian and anti-Slavic slogans were shouted. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the liberal Slovenian press showed sympathy for the Serbs and Serbia, which, from their point of view, still represented the Piedmont of Yugoslavia 45 and that 'a Slovenian priest is neither a Slovenian nor a Slav'. 46 The beginning of the war was therefore not marked by a change in the ideological orientation of either dominant Slovenian political stream.…”

“…Moreover, in July 1917, Slovenec began to publish extremely anti-German articles similar to those in Slovenian liberal journals. 88 Finally, Slovenec confirmed the victory of Korošec and Krek by explicitly rejecting the institute of a historical right to statehood and calling for the implementation of the national principle: Slovenians in Cisleithania were divided into four provinces: Carniola, Carinthia, Styria, Littoral, and they also gave our Pomeranian Slovenians to the Hungarian half to make us more controllable. Today, various invited and uninvited German statesmen still explain the sanctity and inviolability of provincial bordersnollite tangere historiamdo not touch history.…”