Don Ivo Prodan u procijepu između talijanske okupacije i nove jugoslavenske države (1917.–1919.)
Don Ivo Prodan in the interval between the Italian occupation and the formation of the new Yugoslavian state (1917–1919)

Author(s): Ante Gverić, Ante Bralić
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Ivo Prodan; Party of Right in Dalmatia; Hrvatska kruna; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Yugoslavian state;
Summary/Abstract: Great political events such as was the First World War led to a metamorphosis of the political tenets of Don Ivo Prodan. On the eve of the War he was a vehement opponent of any notion about state unification with Serbia. During the War, and especially towards its end, he accepted the idea of a Yugoslavian state. It must be emphasized that Prodan’s metamorphosis was conditioned upon a radical shift in political circumstances, but it never went so far as to negate the existence of Croatianness. At the moment of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy’s destruction he accepted the idea of forming a Yugoslav state, though he never clearly defined his position on how this new state should be organized. During November 1918 he supported a decentralization of this state and its organization on republican lines, but faced with a growing and more comprehensive Italian occupation in northern Dalmatia he avoided expressing this view and accepted a monarchy under the Karađorđević dynasty. Prodan was far from any notion of an integral Yugoslavism.

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