What Was Yugoslavism | The Messy Birth of the South-Slavic State

Yugoslavia existed for over 70 years but never managed to truly unite its three main nationalities. According to proponents of Yugoslavism, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes were all one people (the Yugoslavs) split apart only by the empires of foreigners. Their attempt to forge a Yugoslav identity would be stymied by the messy reality of ethnicity and nationality in the Western Balkans. Subscribe for more history: /c/LookBackHistory Instagram (behind the scenes!): https://www.instagram.com/james_king3125/ More Videos: How Did Romania Unite?: /watch/MLGw12c3u3s3w How Did Austria-Hungary Actually Work?: /watch/4ig2kaFgkTPg2 How Did Bulgaria Unite?: /watch/IBcr54idp0tdr Why Did the Kaiser HAVE to Abdicate?: /watch/gvzXyhIqH5rqX Why Was Hungary Partitioned After WWI?: /watch/4nbcEhDqlPIqc Sources Consulted: Babac, Ivo. “Antecedents and Antipodes.” In The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, 21–140. Cornell University Press, 1984. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvrf8bft.7 . Kosnica, Ivan. “State Authority and Competing Arrangements in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia (1918–1941).” Administory 5, no. 1 (Dec. 2020): 152-166. https://doi.org/10.2478/adhi-2020-0010 Miller, Stuart T. Mastering Modern European History. London: Macmillan Education LTD, 1990. Milosavljević, Boris. “Drafting the Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes (1920).” Balcanica 50. (Jan. 2019): 225-244. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339395938 Šurlan, Tijana. “International Legal Recognition of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.” Istorija 20. Veka 1/2023, no. 1 (Jan. 2023): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2023.1.sur.1-18

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