Summary
Matko Globačnik: Austria-Hungary or the Balkans
The book analyzes the "foreign policy" of Croatian social democracy during the Balkan wars, that is, during the most intense relations between Croatian social democrats (V. Korać, V. Bukšeg, J. Demetrović and others) and their comrades from the Balkan countries (D. Tucović, D. Lapčević, D. Blagoev, J. Sakazov and others) before the First World War. The research on relations between socialists was carried out using an innovative methodology and on the basis of unused sources, such as the minutes of the Main Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia, and was placed in the context of discussions on the national question of the South Slavs led by the most relevant European socialist theoreticians (K. Kautsky, H. Wendel, O. Bauer, K. Renner, etc.). In this way, the author shows how among the socialists in Austria-Hungary and the Balkans there was a split that was difficult to bridge over the creation of a federative Balkan republic. This book changes the previous perception in historiography and provides a new and interesting view of the "prehistory" of socialist/communist Yugoslavia.
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