Szerbiában a helyzet változatlan. Az I. világháború szerbiai megítélése és a legújabb külföldi szakirodalom recepciója
Nothing New in Serbia: The Assessment of the First World War and the Reception of the Newest Foreign Literature in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the output of Serbian historiography on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Contemporary Serbian historians have recently begun releasing short and long form publications dedicated to this historic event, as a reaction to new historic works from the west. This is in response to new historical viewpoints which, according to Serbian historians, neglect the fact that Serbia was among the victorious countries in World War I, and that today’s historiographical views are under heavy influence from stereotypes of Serbia that arose during wars waged on the territories of Former Yugoslavia. In their opinion, the roles of Serbia and Gavrilo Princip in the events preceding the outbreak of the Great War are re-evaluated in that light. Differences in viewpoints thus became more striking by 2014, so eventually a drastic polarization of opinion took place, which was not based on the results of new research, but chiefly came from old, already published literature. Serbian historians from older and younger generations and those in-between, declared that there has been a paradigm shift in attitudes on the circumstances of the outbreak of World War I among western historians, and with that, the historical perception of Serbia, which used to be seen as a victor in the war, has substantially changed ahead of this jubilee. Judging by works thus far, Serbian historians largely defended their stance from a national angle, which can be interpreted as an existence of an ideological continuity in several views of the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences.

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