Transnational history of Yugoslavian interwar identity: between nationalism and internationalism

在两次世界大战之间的年代里，塞尔维亚人的身份只能用复杂来形容。到1918年12月，大多数参与其中的人（只要他们有政治意识）似乎都支持建立某种南斯拉夫--尽管他们对这个国家的理解大相径庭。[1]南斯拉夫两次战争之间的同一性失败的问题并不是一个新问题。然而，许多历史学家只是从民族主义的角度来研究南斯拉夫，试图解释两次世界大战之间南斯拉夫最重要的问题--民族问题。两次世界大战之间南斯拉夫的失败被归因于民族文化竞争中强烈的民族特性。离开占主导地位的自上而下的方法，我想分析文化政治如何转化为社会。探讨了国际思想在日常生活中如何被解释，如何被南斯拉夫不同民族地区的人们所理解，如何通过文化得以实现，以及这些国际思想对南斯拉夫社会的形成产生了什么影响。“关于南斯拉夫的故事不是关于欧洲后院的故事，而是关于欧洲本身的故事”。它可以揭示一个经济欠发达国家对国际主义的解释和实践的差异，增进我们对区域背景下国际观念的流行心态的理解，有助于国际史领域的研究。

The Yugoslavian identity in the interwar years can only be described as complex. 'ByDecember 1918, most of the populations involved (inasmuch as they had any politicalconsciousness) appeared to support the creation of some sort of Yugoslavia - though how theyunderstood that state varied widely.'1 The question of the failure of the Yugoslav interwaridentity is not a new one. However, it has only been studied through the prism of competingnationalisms with many historians trying to explain the most important problem in interwarYugoslavia - the national problem.The failure of interwar Yugoslavia has been attributed to strong national particularismembedded in competing national cultures. Departing from the predominant top down approachI would like to analyse how cultural politics translated into society. Answering the questionsof how international ideas were interpreted in daily life, understood by people across differentethnic regions of Yugoslavia, then enacted through culture, and what impact theseinternational ideas had on forging the Yugoslav society.'The story about Yugoslavia is not a story about Europe's backyard, but about Europe itself'.2Researching the salience of international ideas for the development of a modern Yugoslavculture and identity is important. It can uncover differences in the interpretation and practiceof internationalism in an economically underdeveloped country, enhance our understandingof popular mentality towards international ideas in a regional context contributing to the fieldof international history.