![]() © University of Toronto Press 2014 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in the U.S.A. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London Making Yugoslavs Identity in King Aleksandar’s Yugoslavia Portrait of King Aleksandar I, from Stanoje Stanojević, Naši vladari (Beograd: Narodno delo, 1927). christian axboe nielsen is an associate professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University.įigure 1. Focusing on how ordinary Yugoslavs responded to Aleksandar’s nationalization project, the book illuminates an oftenignored era of Yugoslav history whose lessons remain relevant not just for the study of Balkan history but for the leaders of many multiethnic societies today. In Making Yugoslavs, Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of the dictatorship’s program of forced nationalization. By the time Aleksandar was killed by an assassin’s bullet five years later, he had failed to create a unified Yugoslav nation – indeed, his dictatorship had contributed to an increase in interethnic tensions. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new Yugoslav national identity on his subjects. When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. MAKING YUGOSLAVS Identity in King Aleksandar’s Yugoslavia ![]() The Return of “Democracy”: September 1931–October 1934Įpilogue and Conclusion: “Preserve My Yugoslavia,” October 1934–May 1935 PART FOUR The Assassination of Aleksandar and the Strange Afterlife of His DictatorshipĦ. Policing Yugoslavism: Surveillance, Denunciations, and Ideology in Daily Life National Workers of Yugoslavia, Unite! Moulding Yugoslavs, January 1930–September 1931ĥ. ![]() Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Dictatorship’s First Year ![]() The Advent of the Alexandrine Dictatorshipģ. “A Tribal and Parliamentary Dictatorship”: The 1920s in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes National Ideology and the Formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and SlovenesĢ. The Collapse of Constitutional Monarchy in Yugoslaviaġ. ![]()
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