Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

Božidar Jezernik is full professor at the University of Ljubljana. He teaches Ethnology of the Balkans, Anthropology of Globalisation and Social Memory and Cultural Heritage. He was head of Department, from 1988–1992 and 1998–2003, and dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, from 2003–7.  He has been the leader of a program research group called Slovenian Identities in European and Global Contextsince 2004.

List of Illustrations

Preface



Introduction: The Naming and Origins of the Yugoslav Idea

Celebrating a Glorious Past

Emancipatory Power of Yugoslav Nationalism

Mobilisation for the Yugoslav Idea

Austria-Hungary Thwarts the Yugoslav Idea

A Volunteer in the Service of the World Revolution

From Villain to National Hero



Chapter 1. In Search of a Path to Yugoslav Unification

Balkan Powder Keg

Divide and Rule

War or Peace?



Chapter 2. Marko Kraljević in the Age of Capitalism

Honouring the Kosovo Pledge

The Balkan Wars and the Dual Monarchy

Slovene Rivers Flow Towards Belgrade

The Quandaries of the Bloody Yugoslav Tragedy

Russian Soldiers Washing Their Feet in the Adriatic Sea



Chapter 3. Turning the Austro-Hungarian Yugoslavs against the Serbs

Vidovdan 1914

All for Faith, Home, and Emperor!

The Language of Ljubljana’s Streets

Teaching Culture with a Steel Fist

Miloš Obilić Has Turned against Marko Kraljević



Chapter 4. The Memory of Fallen Soldiers as a Seed of Discord

From the Kosovo Temple to the Pantheon of the Liberators

Petrified Opanaks and Šajkačas

Stone Soldiers Strike Back

Chaplain France Bonač

Monument to the Unknown Slovene Soldier



Chapter 5. The Father of Modern Yugoslav Idea

Projecting the Present to the Past

A Great Yugoslav and a Small Austrian

The Dilemma of a Yugoslav Anthropologist

Only God Came from Nothing, a Yugoslavs Needed a Creator

Yugoslavism as a Burden



Chapter 6. Creating the New Nation-State

If a Kernel of Wheat Dies, It Produces Many Seeds

The Yugoslav Piedmont

The Nation-State Is Founded, What Shall Its Citizens Be Called?

Пијемонт vs. Piemonte

Symbolic Integration

“The Brother Is Dear Whatever His Faith Is”



Chapter 7. Celebrating the Unity of the Nation with the Three Names

“Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Forever Brothers to Each Other!”

Rousseauian Pillars of Nationalism

March Separately, Strike Unitedly

Straw that Quickly Burns

A Nation-State without Nationalism



Chapter 8. The Yugoslav Nation-State as a Mosaic, Not a Melting Pot of Peoples

The Argonauts of Yugoslav Nationalism

The Price of Unification

“Yugoslav Bismarck”

King the Unifier

Instrumentalisation of the National Question

“Brotherhod and Unity”



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