РЕКВИЗИЦИЈЕ И КОНТРОЛА АГРАРА У СРЕМУ ТОКОМ ПРВОГ СВЕТСКОГ РАТА
REQUISITIONS AND CONTROL OF AGRICULTURE IN SREM DURING WORLD WAR I

Summary/Abstract: When Austria-Hungary attacked Kingdom of Serbia in 1914, it initiated a war which soon grew into a conflict on a world scale. However, AustriaHungary was not ready for the war at the moment. Among the states of the Triple Alliance, it was the weakest one, and the success on the battlefield could have been expected only if the war had been short. Since this did not occur, after a few months of warfare and defeat on all fronts, Vienna understood that economy had to be adapted to new circumstances. Thus, as early as 1914, they started setting maximum prices for food articles above all, which was not enough, and the following years brought requisitions as well. As a region with a large Serbian population that had suffered greatly in 1914 and 1915, Syrmia felt all the horrors of the war. Serbs were depopulated, their property was a target of many pillages, and then ensued numerous requisitions, bans and legal acts in connection with the maximum prices. All of this was a fertile soil for the creation of the Green cadres, which were unusually strong in Syrmia, so that they had almost taken over the authority before the war was over.

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