PART II: YUGOSLAV EXPERIENCE FROM NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - Croatia and Croats in Yugoslavia - Resistance to Centralism
PART II: YUGOSLAV EXPERIENCE FROM NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - Croatia and Croats in Yugoslavia - Resistance to Centralism

Author(s): Ivo Goldstein
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Summary/Abstract: Our Analysis will focus on the Croatian experience of Yugoslav history. The question that is usually asked, at the level of popular understanding of the past, is confined to the very simple dilemma of whether Yugoslavia was a good or bad solution for the Croatian people. It is clear that a simple or short answer does not exist. In both Yugoslavias, the “Croatian question” (although it was not so called after 1945), in other words, the question of the status of the Croatian lands and Croatian people was still relevant just like in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The promotion of “Croatian interests” and “Yugoslavism” was not necessarily contradictory; rather, it consisted, or could consist, in some form of federal union.

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