Antizapadna orijentacija kao komponenta šire ideologijske matrice: slučaj Vojvodine
Anti-Western Orientation as Component ofg a broader ideological Pattern: the Case of Vojvodina

Summary/Abstract: Using the example of Vojvodina, the author looks into the connection between the “socialist ideology” and the anti-western orientation. The survey, conducted in Subotica, focuses on the influence of ethnic origin, education, migratory history and the participation of a respondent’s family in the Partisan resistance movement on the latent configuration of certain political orientations (subdimension of “socialist ideology”) and the anti-western orientation. The author claims there are four relatively independent latent dimensions of “socialist ideology”: (1) Yugo-nostalgia, (2) Collectivist/statist orientation, (3) Militarist/statist orientation, and (4) Egalitarianism. The study has shown that, basically, the anti-western orientation is one of the components of the socialist ideological pattern. The “militarist anti-western orientation” is demonstrated by the Serbs who moved to Subotica between World War One and the recent war on the territory of the former SFR Yugoslavia. Apart from these Serbs – and unlike the other ethnic groups – this “militarist anti-western orientation” is also noticeable in a fraction of Croats from Bačka (Bunjevci) who have stated as their nationality “only” – Bunjevci (Bačka Croats). Besides, the study has shown that lower social classes harbour a kind of “socialist anti-western orientation”. The anti-western orientation, which the author labels as the “Yugo-nostalgic anti-western orientation”, is held by those respondents whose relatives were involved in the Partisan movement.

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