Matica hrvatska u političkom životu Hrvatske 1935. - 1945.
MATICA HRVATSKA AND POLITICAL LIFE IN CROATIA, 1935-1945

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with a decade (1935-1945) of activity of one of the most significant cultural institutions of the Croat people – the Matica Hrvatska. This was a decade of tremendous political change, the collapse of two states and the conflict of three dominant western ideologies. Croatian society during these dramatic ten years experienced three different types of national ideology – Yugoslavian monarchical centralism somewhat linked to Greater Serbian national ideology at the time of Royal dictatorship, the (con)federal attempt to solve the Croatian national question through the Banovina of Croatia, and the nationalist attempt to create an integral nation-state. During these ten years, sooner or later, all three of these attempts were defeated. Ideology, as an unavoidable factor and motivator of every political programme in the ‘Moderna’ period leads us to the examination of the ideological context in which political events developed. But since ideology, and with that politics in a wider sense, are cultural phenomena, it is very important to study Croatian history during this period from the point of view of an important institution such as the Matica Hrvatska.

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