Imperijalni imaginarij 1918.–2008. Velikosrpstvo Radikalne stranke
Imperial Imaginings 1918–2008. The ‘Great Serbian’ Radical Party

Author(s): Tihomir Cipek
Subject(s): Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Politics and religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Greater Serbia; Serbian Radical Party; long-term structure; mental maps;
Summary/Abstract: This text supports the thesis that Great Serbian imperialism represents a “structure of long duration” which vitally determines Serbian politics in the 19th and 20th century. It has already been shown why the manner and form that defined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1918 proves that the Serbian political elite saw it as an expanded Serbia, a kind of Serbian empire. The example of the politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian hi-story textbooks, and especially the contemporary politics of the Serbian Radical Party with emphasis on its electoral slogans for the Serbian parliamentary elections of 2006 and 2008 point to the basic arguments which prove the thesis that Serbian imperialism is a structure of long duration. It is concluded that the widespread acceptance of Greater Serbian ideology in Serbian society re-presents an “epistemological catastrophe” which is the reason that Serbia is a divided society and an incomplete state.

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