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Srpska politička desnica i srpsko nacionalno pitanje u Trojadnici krajem XIX. veka
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2006 |
The article investigates the party policy of Serbian Independent Party in Zagreb upon the national identity of the Serbs and Serbian national question in the Triune Kingdom (Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia) as a part of political-national relations between Croats, Serbs, Italians and Hungarians in the years from 1881 to 1902. The ultimate goal of the party was to compel Croatian opposition politicians, especially those from nationalistic Croatian Party of Rights, to recognize existence of Serbs in Triune Kingdom as separate ethnolinguistic identity from Croats and to legally guarantee to Serbs certain national rights in order to protect their national identity. As the best sign of Croatian good will was proposed an introduction of common Croato-Serbian language instead of current Croatian one. However, in the cases of Croatian hardline policy toward Serbs, the party adopted the attitude according to which the Croats have been only specius of Serbian gens that means Croats are only the part of Serbian ethnolinguistic body. In this period of time it was mainly a common policy of both sides to negate separate national existence to eachother: Croat Party of Rights negated that Serbs are living on the territory of Triune Kingdom teaching that Serbs are Orthodox Croats (and Bosnian Muslims Islamic Croats), while Serbian Independent Party annulled national identity of Croats propagated that Croats are nothing else than Catholic Serbs (as well as that Bosnian Muslims are of Serb ethnolinguistic background).