THE DIVERGENCE OF ELITE NATIONAL THOUGHT IN MONTENEGRO DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD
THE DIVERGENCE OF ELITE NATIONAL THOUGHT IN MONTENEGRO DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses elite national thought in Montenegro during the interwar period. Against the background of politic and economic instability, the elite gradually reformulated competing national ideas in Montenegro, elaborating two dominant proto-nationalist traditions. Whereas at the beginning of the interwar period differences in national thought only consisted of different grades of importance ascribed to proto-nationalist Montenegrin elements within the Serbian national idea, by the end of the interwar period the two proto-nationalist traditions were crystallized into two sharply opposing national ideas: a Serbian and a Montenegrin national idea

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