RECIKLIRANJE MEMORIJE NARODA – (Odnos prema uredskim arhivima nakon 1918. godine)
RECICLYNG THE PEOPLE΄S MEMORY – (Attitude towards administrative archives after 1918)

Summary/Abstract: After radical socio-political changes that occurred in 1918, irrespective of antagonism of the new regime towards the previous, Austro-Hungarian rule, numerous practices introduced and developed by Austro-Hungarians were taken over by the new rulers. The system of administrative practices and maintenance of administrative archives were inherited in their entirety. However, based on research of original archival material, this paper establishes that the office management was a far cry from the system that had existed prior to 1918. Furthermore, numerous administrative and territorial changes carried out after 1918 had a significant impact on the physiognomy of preserved archival holdings as well. The existing literature on archives blame solely to Austro-Hungarian authorities for this destruction of archival material in Bosnia and Herzegovina, pointing at the fact that they failed to establish a single archival institution for the country. In addition to the fact that even after 1918 there was no archival institution established in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this paper builds upon original documents in order to shed some light on the absence of responsibility of the new “liberation” regime towards administrative archives – also known as people’s memory – that, in the period after 1918, was not only unprotected, but also exposed to abuse and mercilessly destroyed by the regime.

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