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Odpovědnost literárních tvůrců za prohlubování nacionalismu v Jugoslávii koncem 70. a v první polovině 80. let 20. století
| Title in English | The Responsibility of Literary Creators for the Deepening of Nationalism in Yugoslavia at the End of the 1970s and in the First Half of the 1980s |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
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| Description | The study focuses on the period of the late 1970s and 1980s in Yugoslavia, when nationalist tendencies began to manifest themselves to a greater extent in literature in that country. These contributed to the emergence of a wave of hurtful nationalism, which was one of the causes of the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia. It points to the change in Yugoslav ideology brought about by the new constitution adopted in 1974. It also limited the effective possibility of intervention by the Yugoslav federal centre. He also points to the clash between conservative and liberal communist factions in the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia, which in some Yugoslav republics (Serbia and Slovenia) led to the rejection of harsh crackdowns on works with inappropriate nationalist content. This was also done to emphasise the difference between the Yugoslav type of socialism and the state-directed socialism of the Soviet bloc. The study discusses the themes that nationalist writers first began to elaborate in Serbia (and Serbia is the focus of the work). These were mainly: Reminiscences of the Second World War and the Ustasha massacres in Herzegovina, Lika and elsewhere; the alleged unequal status of Serbia in the Yugoslav federation (the presence of two autonomous regions); the denial of Serbia's merits in the liberation of the "conquered brothers" and the creation of Yugoslavia after the First World War, and the main role of Serbs in the anti-fascist struggle in the Second War. There were also works on the non-communist Serbian, so-called Chetnik resistance during the war, which during the period of socialist Yugoslavia was considered collaborative and hostile to the Yugoslav people. The study uses archival research to show the attitudes of the various communist currents towards nationalism and anti-socialist forces. The author deals extensively with the work of Dobrica Ćosić, Vuk Drašković and Jovan Radulović, and marginally with other Serbian authors. |
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