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Nationalism and Socialism in the Yugoslav Revolution: the Question of Transformations and Continuities

Instead of arguing about complete socialist revolutionizing of social reality, through this exposition we would like to emphasize the political, social and cultural elements that survived the transition from the pre-socialist to the socialist era (and later even to the post-socialist). Many features of previously formed dominant and particular national ideologies were built into the common idea of Yugoslavism, that is, a kind of Yugoslav supranationalism. During the war and revolutionary period of 1941-1945 (with a special "extension" until 1948) those features were found in a complementary relationship with proclaimed socialist internationalism (according to Mao’s thesis, derived from Lenin, that "in a war for a national liberation nationalism is the same as implemented internationalism"). Indeed, while in capitalist societies the influence of national ideologies weakened, in the socialist collectivist regimes it was even strengthened and the socialist transformation became the source of inherited and rearticulated national questions as an integral part (moreover the sine qua non) of revolutionary programs. The Yugoslav case in that respect was not an exception, except through the fact of the internal complexity of that state, for which a dichotomy between Yugoslav state patriotism and ethnic nationalisms of the Yugoslav nations was present from the beginning, with a justified question of the share of individual national agendas in the total form and content of the new Yugoslav state. In order to offer both factually and interpretatively balanced answers to these and similar questions we believe that the entire war and post-war period of socialist Yugoslavia (1941- 1991) should finally be historicized, deprived of usual abstractions, stereotypes, extensions of the present time into the past and, instead, be regarded in the frame of the recurrent dialectic between ideological modernity, long-lasting processes and inherent tradition.

nationalism ; socialism ; yugoslav revolution

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