Dirigovani društveni život grada u totalnom ratu - Sarajevo od 1914. do 1918. godine
Directed Social Life of the City in Total War - Sarajevo from 1914 to 1918

Summary/Abstract: The Sarajevo assassination of 1914, its political and military consequences, followed by the rearrangement of the constitutional status of South Slavic countries, including the status of Bosnia and Herzegovina, threw a dark cloud over other aspects of life in the city of Sarajevo during the Great War, at least in terms of domestic historiography. A combination of military and administrative authorities and measures taken in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the city municipality of Sarajevo had its prehistory that provided general guidelines for overall social relations in the city during the war. To see Sarajevo in the era of the Great War did not mean to see Bosnia Herzegovina as a whole, but Sarajevo simultaneously radiated and absorbed all the segments of the complex situation in this region between war zones and deep background. Under the constructed patriotism, public life was strictly directed and controlled, or nationalised. Nonetheless, the lack of existential assumptions, economic situation as the paramount question, i.e. giving prominence to nutrition as the key political issue, initiated its disintegration through war profiteering, speculation, crime, human casualties, the exhaustion of economic and financial potentials, overall poverty, mass begging. Evident emergence of ‘gray areas’ in social reality, which was assumed to be obedient and internally unalterable through the system of repressive measures and the coercion apparatus of the military and administration authorities, indicate during the war all the shortcomings and cracks in the imposed concept of governing of the city and the country as a whole.

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