Implications of the Balkan Wars for the Yugoslav Idea among Slovenians in Trieste

Ivašković, Igor

doi:10.1080/19448953.2017.1367567

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“…This particular attempt of solving the South Slavic issue within the Habsburg Monarchy was therefore no different from the previous plans. The national relations in the Primorska region, in Trieste, and in Istria were tense, which could have been noticed in the writings of the "Edinost" (Unity), the Slovenian liberal journal from Trieste, and its Italian counterpart "L'Istria" (Ivašković, 2019). Already at the end of 1903, the latter proclaimed that Istria would be definitely Italian, while the Slavic population was supposed nolens volens to be loyal and to recognise the Italian character of the peninsula ("Edinost", 26 November 1903).…”

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“…Each side tried to incorporate its own national goals into the idea of a South Slavic state. These goals were often mutually exclusive, which seems to be one of the main sources of the instability for both Yugoslav states formed after the two world wars (Ivašković, 2019). According to Ivo Banac (1988: 149), the reason for this was the fact that partial national ideologies among South Slavs had been already formed well before the idea of Yugoslavism started to take place in the political reality.…”

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The Implications of the “New Course” Strategy

Ivašković

2020

Polit. misao (Online)

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This article examines the political framework of “novi kurs” (“New Course”) from the beginning of the 20th century, its strategic aims and its function within the battle of different visions of a South Slavic state. The evidence shows that the new political direction contributed to the improvement of conflicting relations between Croats and Serbs, but, at the same time, it had a negative impact on the Croatian-Slovenian alliance along the Adriatic coast. In the context of the latter relation, the author analyses the reactions of Slovenians from Trieste and Primorska region who were supposed to be the collaterals due to what seemed to be an agreement between Serbs and Croats. However, although the “New Course” may be seen as long expected consensus between Croats and Serbs, a thorough analysis undermines that thesis. This became evident with the formation of two political factions within the Croatian-Serbian Coalition in which different views on the fundamental geopolitical parameters of the South Slavic state were developed.

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