PART II: YUGOSLAV EXPERIENCE FROM NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - The Serbs and Serbia in Modern History: Experience with other Nations
PART II: YUGOSLAV EXPERIENCE FROM NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - The Serbs and Serbia in Modern History: Experience with other Nations

Author(s): Latinka Perović
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Summary/Abstract: There are more or less detailed histories of Serbia in the 19th and the 20th centuries. This paper tries to summarize the history of the modern Serbian state, established at the turn of the century and its experience in the common state with other Yugoslav nations; Yugoslavia’s development and the reasons why it turned out to be unsustainable at two global historical crossroads: the beginning of World War II and the demise of the Soviet Union as a political-military and ideological hegemonist in Eastern Europe. And both times it collapsed in bloody wars between its nations. One of the first detailed insights into 19th century Serbia after the rule of the Obrenović dynasty was penned by Serbian lawyer, historian and politician Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958). This paper refers to it not because of its originality and completeness, but also the indisputable intellectual authority of its author who also wrote another – true, more concise – overview of Serbia’s historical experience up to the mid-19th century published, in deference to the author’s last will and testament, after his death.

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