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CROATS AND CROATIA IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT WAR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2014

John Paul Newman
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Abstract

This article addresses the experiences of Croats and Croatia in the aftermath of the First World War, showing how the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia privileged the wartime sacrifice of Serbia and the Serbian army and how Croats were often depicted as the remnants of a defeated state, Austria-Hungary, and therefore less entitled to citizenship in the South Slav kingdom. It focuses on three large veteran associations: the Association of Reserve Officers and Warriors, the Union of Volunteers, and the Association of War Invalids.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 24 , December 2014 , pp. 165 - 181
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2014 

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1 The international project ‘Russia's Great War and Revolution’ looks set to address this research gap. See the project's website http://russiagreatwar.org/index.php (accessed 3 Jan. 2014).

2 I am very grateful to Filip Hameršak for this information.

3 A notable exception to this rule is Andrej Mitrović's excellent single-volume account of Serbia during the First World War, Srbija u prvom svetskom ratu (Belgrade, 2004), published (slightly abridged) in English as Serbia's Great War 1914–1918 (2007).

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10 This term, an inversion of Wolfgang Schivelbusch's notion of a ‘culture of defeat’, is explored by John Horne in his essay ‘Beyond Cultures of Victory and Defeat? Interwar Veterans’ Internationalism’, in The Great War, ed. Eichenberg and Newman.

11 There is an important study of the interwar ‘Chetnik’ associations in Bosnia – many of whose members were veterans of the Great War – by Šehić, Nusret, Četništvo u Bosni i Hercegovini (1918–1941): politička uloga i oblici djelatnosti četničkih udruženja (Sarajevo, 1971)Google Scholar.

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27 Ibid.

28 Ratni invalid (Zagreb), 1 July 1920.

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30 Although the association was better organised and more united in the following decade. This, according to the Royal Court, was due to the administrative skill of its new president, Božidar Nedić brother of Milan Nedić, the head of the Axis-affiliated Serbian quisling state during the Second World War. See AJ 74–233–366.

31 Ratni invalid (Zagreb), 8 July 1922.

32 Ratni invalid (Belgrade), 21 Dec. 1922.

33 Ratni invalid (Zagreb), 10 Jan. 1921.

34 Obzor, 17 Oct. 1924.

35 Ibid., and 20 Oct. 1924.

36 HDA 137–468.

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38 HDA 1363–16.

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