Privredni i socijalni razlozi propasti Države Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba
The Economic and Social Reasons for the Collapse of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs

Author(s): Mira Kolar
Subject(s): Economic history, Political history, Social history, Economic policy, Government/Political systems, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Croatia; State of Slovenes Croats and Serbs; National Council of Slovenes Croats and Serbs; economic policy; social policy;
Summary/Abstract: This work clarifies the circumstances in Croatia and Slavonia in the autumn of 1918, that is, at the time of the activity of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs. The unification of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs was not only desired but demanded by the bourgeois ranks of society in order to preserve their social position and property. In Croatia, such a climate of hopelessness existed that it seemed to the bourgeoisie that acceptance of the internationally recognized and victorious Kingdom of Serbia was the only solution which could erase the stigma of alliance with the defeated forces of the First World War. The fall of 1918 was a time of upheaval and there was no force in Croatia which could have a calming effect on the anarchic conditions, because the old government had collapsed and the new one had yet to establish itself. The reasons for this were many, from discord among politicians, to the lack of financial resources, to the destruction of property and the appearance of looting in many areas. Without conditions, Croatia entered the embrace of Serbia, sacrificing in this process its most capable politicians and qualified specialists who were not in agreement with developments. Following the unification of 1 December 1918, hungry, poverty-stricken and war-deprived Croatia offered rather weak resistance to the hegemonic attitude of the Great Serbian nationalists in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, or, as better known by its later name, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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