Published amid the unravelling of the second Yugoslavia, this text concerns the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity - its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its perculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.
Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the te…
Banac's work gives new meaning to the troubled ethnic mosaic in the Yugoslav region, based on the historic characteristics and political ideologies of Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes from 1918 to 1921.
