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Tvg Nr 4-Bw 2011.Indd Uncivil Society: Weapons seized from the opposition during the municipal elections in Bujanovac, December 6, 1936. Source: Archiv Jugoslavije Guest (guest) IP: 170.106.202.58 On: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:58:22 449 Serbian Integral Nationalism, its Opponents, and Mass Violence in the Balkans 1903-1945 John Paul Newman The article traces a line of continuity in Serbian nationalizing links between the mass violence of 1912- 1918 and 1941-1945 through an examina- tendencies from the palace coup in Belgrade 1903 through tion of Serbian integral nationalism and its opponents. In this article the term Serbian to the defeat of Serbian nationalist forces in the Yugoslav integral nationalism refers to the strain of Serbian nationalism that called for the inte- Civil War of 1941-1945. Due attention is paid to opponents gration of all Serb-populated lands into one national whole, generally without regard of of these forces, in Austria-Hungary, and later amongst existing political circumstances or the ethnic composition of the lands in question. This Croats. The article uses Alan Kramer’s concept of a ‘dynamic impulse was present throughout our period, it clashed with rival nationalisms and created of destruction’ to show how rivalries between these forces what Alan Kramer was termed a ‘dynamic of destruction’, wherein violence and the de- repeatedly created the conditions for mass violence in the struction of non-national culture was ‘both a by-product of combat and the consequence South Slav lands. of a deliberate policy’.2 Integral nationalists in Serbia frequently directed their efforts towards Kosovo and Macedonia, which were divided between vilayets (provinces) of the Ottoman Empire until 1912 and whose eth- nic composition was mixed. Introduction This article will argue that the support- The lives of both interwar Yugoslavia (1918- ers of this kind of nationalism strongly influ- 1941) and its socialist successor (1945-1991) enced the programme of the Yugoslav Army began and ended in periods of mass, intereth- in the Fatherland (the Chetniks), pushing its nic violence. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, leaders towards a policy of ethnic cleansing of and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) 1 was formed in non-Serbs as a means of creating an integral 1918 after a long period of total war, starting Serbian state on the territory they held. It with the Balkan wars of 1912-1913 and then will be shown that the Chetniks’ ideology and intensifying during 1914-1918. The state’s their role in mass violence was determined in occupation and dismemberment by the Axis large part by supporters of the Serbian na- in 1941 was followed by a Yugoslav civil war tional project dating back to 1903. Links will from 1941-1945. And the break-up of the so- also be drawn between the opponents of this cialist state during 1991-1995 was attended project: most notably Austria-Hungary, its by inter-ethnic violence and wars in Slovenia, supporters in the Croat lands during the First Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosnia). World War, and the Croatian fascist move- Why this propensity? Why should Yugoslavia have been, in both its royalist 1 From 1918-1929 the official name of the state was the Kingdom of Serbs, and socialist iterations, framed by periods Croats, and Slovenes, thereafter it became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. of mass violence? This article will focus on For the sake of brevity it will be referred to throughout this article as Yugoslavia. the first half of the twentieth century, from 2 Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First 1903 to 1945. It will highlight the important World War (Oxford 2007) 1. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - 124e jaargang, nummer 4, p. 448-463 Guest (guest) IP: 170.106.202.58 On: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:58:22 450 John Paul Newman ment, the Ustashe, during the Second World replaced by Petar Karađorđević, heir of the ri- War. Like the Chetniks, the Ustashe were val Serbian dynasty, who returned from exile perpetrators of mass violence during the civil in Geneva to take the throne. Serbia became war in Yugoslavia during 1941-1945. Anti- a constitutional monarchy, and the Serbian Yugoslav Croats in exile formed the Ustasha People’s Radical Party formed the first post- Croatian Revolutionary Organization move- coup government. The party would come to ment at the beginning of the 1930s, osten- dominate the country’s political scene until sibly as a response to the promulgation of the outbreak of the First World War.4 the royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia the year A popular perception of Serbia from before. The Ustashe partly was comprised 1903 until 1914 is of a ‘golden age’ of func- ex-Habsburg officers of Croat descent and tioning parliamentary democracy and con- former Frankists, the latter a pro-Habsburg stitutional rule. King Petar is often seen as political faction strongly opposed to Serbian an instinctively liberal king whose authority nationalism. This article will show that many was curtailed by the constitution of 1903, the of the founders of the Ustashe had also been People’s Radical Party is cast as the midwife associated with Austria-Hungary’s violent of a modern and democratic political system. attempts to ‘denationalize’ Serbia during the Contrary to this perception, recent research First World War. has shown that the period from the coup un- til the outbreak of the First World War was characterized not only by democratic consol- 1903: The ‘Golden Age’ Begins idation and institution-building but also by In 1903 a group of army officers deposed aggressive expansionism and hawkish foreign the Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović, an policy.5 For many in Serbia their kingdom event that significantly altered Serbia’s tra- in 1903 was surrounded by ‘unredeemed’ jectory in the twentieth century. Aleksandar lands: to the south, the medieval Serbian had been on the throne in Serbia since 1889; lands of Kosovo and Macedonia, still part during his reign many had become hostile of the Ottoman Empire; to the west, Bosnia, to his autocratic style and many more were with its large Serb population. The national- scandalized by his marriage to Draga Mašin, ists’ dream was to integrate these lands into a widow and a woman ‘with a past’. Officers Serbia proper, so that the Serbs there could in the Serbian Army felt that Aleksandar, share in the golden age of political freedom as Supreme Commander of the Army, had and modernization. Nationalists particularly brought their institution into disrepute. From cherished the ‘southern regions’ of Kosovo 1902 onwards they conspired against him, and Macedonia, the sites of great importance and in May (O.S.) the following year they car- to Serbia’s historical and religious heritage. ried out a coup, breaking into the royal palace National awakeners of the nineteenth cen- and murdering both Aleksandar and Queen tury had repeatedly emphasized the impor- Draga.3 The coup was a bloody affair, both tance of these lands, the so-called ‘classical Aleksandar and Draga were thrown out of a south’ of Serbia. palace window, after which conspirators on the ground below maimed their corpses with sabres. It caused outrage in diplomatic circles War in the ‘Classical South’ across Europe and had a number of impor- There was, then, a will to redeem ‘Serbian’ tant consequences in Serbia. Aleksandar was lands; there was also a way. For years groups of Christian bandits had operated in the 3 For an account of the coup and its consequences: Wayne Vucinich, Serbia Ottoman Balkans. Known to the Ottomans between East and West: The Events of 1903-1908 (Stanford 1954). as komitadji, they referred to themselves as 4 Neither the king nor the Radicals had been involved in the coup. 5 Two important monographs that make this point are Olga Popović- četnici, a name derived from the Balkan word Obradović Parlementarizam u Srbiji 1903-1914 (Belgrade 2008, 2nd edition), četa, meaning troop or (military) unit. In and Dubravka Stojanović, Srbija i demokratija:1903-1914: istorijska studija 1902 Serbian nationalists had organized a o “zlatnom dobu srpske demokratije” (Belgrade 2003). See also, Olga Popović-Obradović, ‘The Roots of Anti-Modern Political Culture in Serbia’, četnik ‘executive committee’ with branches in Bosnia Report, 55-56 (January-July 2007), available at http://www.bosnia. various towns across Serbia whose aim was to org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=3183&reportid=173 [acces- sed 21 December 2010]. co-ordinate and strengthen the national cha- 6 6 Vucnich, Serbia Between East and West, 131.132. racter of banditry in the Ottoman Balkans. Guest (guest) IP: 170.106.202.58 On: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:58:22 Serbian Integral Nationalism, its Opponents, and Mass Violence in the Balkans 1903-1945 451 Democracy Rides in to Serbia on a White Horse: King Petar Karađorđević at his coronation in 1904. Source: Archiv Jugoslavije The private initiative was appealing to some corporation into the Serbian state. This young Serbs – both from within Serbia and meant supporting and promoting the work from Habsburg and Ottoman territories – of četnici who fought against the Ottomans who were eager to assist in the important ‘na- (and against rival Balkan guerrilla groups: tional work’ of the četnik committee.7 Initially especially those from Bulgaria) and dissemi- unsupportive of the ‘hot heads’ in the south, nating Serbian nationalist propaganda (in by 1905 the Serbian government was lending churches and schools, for example) so as to official support – both moral and material strengthen the basis of Serbian national life – to the četnici.8 Expediency sometimes dic- in Kosovo and Macedonia. It is here that we tated that official Serbia distance itself from see the peculiar Janus-face of the Kingdom the četnici, nevertheless they shared the com- of Serbia from 1903-1914: both progressive mittee’s interest in turning desultory acts of and modernizing and aggressively expansion- banditry into more concerted anti-imperial ist and willing to wield violence.
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