Nacionalno pitanje u poimanju bosanskohercegovačkih socijaldemokrata (1909-1918)
National Question in Understanding of B&H Social-Democrats (1909-1918)

Summary/Abstract: In the given text, the first intention was to discuss one of the essential questions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1909 to 1918, and to offer one of the most acceptable and most rational answers, to this question, from this particular period. In fact, this is a national issue in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was neglected and unresolved. Historical facts that led to the awakening of ‘national’ and promoting of the solutions, relating to the processes of ethnic renewal in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the second half of the 19th century) that were guided and radicalized under the influences of Serbia and Croatia, but, also, with the occupation of the country from the Austro-Hungarian power, which soon reduced the nominations Bosniak and the Bosnian language. The efforts of Benjamin Kalaj, to introduce the so called Bosnian identity, were unsuccessful, and the growing dissatisfaction in the country was starting to become visible especially in the Bosnian Muslim population – the Bosniaks were threatened from the assimilation from Serbs and Croats. The social democratic understanding of the national question was the most relevant. The social democrats attempted to create a joint country of all the people of Yugoslavia, who would live in the ‘United Yugoslavia’ or in ‘Independent Balkan Federation’, solely on the principle of equality and equal rights. The idea is international and it predicts the creation of ‘World people’s community’. They considered the Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), to be equal and to enjoy equal rights, and thought of them as a part of the people’s unity of ‘Serbs-Croats’, and they assured an equal status for them in the unified country of all Yugoslavians, which excluded any assimilation of the Bosnian Muslims.

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