HRVATI U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI PREMA UJEDINJENJU 1918. GODINE
ATTITUDE OF THE CROATS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO THE UNIFICATION OF 1918

Summary/Abstract: Political mobilisation of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina was carried out with the motto of national unity. During the World War I, political parties were inactive, their membership dissolved, yet their leaders, as the representatives of people, were integrated, as early as by the end of the war, into the newly established Peoples’ Council of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Peoples’ Government for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The same happened with the political leaders and renowned individuals from the Croat ethnic community and the Croat Catholic Association. In the wake of creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, enormous differences on numerous issues were immediately manifested. Most of these differences were related to the state structure, agrarian relations, position of religious communities etc. Attempts to homogenise ethnic communities failed and, instead, resulted in the emergence of numerous political parties. Bosnian-Herzegovinian society was over-burdened with opposing political and national programmes and projects and, thus, it reflected all the complexities of the problem caused by the creation of a unitary Yugoslav state.

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