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- Title
One hundred years of Yugoslavia: the vision of Stojan Novaković revisited.
- Authors
Aleksov, Bojan
- Abstract
This article examines a text written 100 years ago by Stojan Novaković, a leading Serbian scholar and president of its Academy of Science. Written in a political science fiction genre, it foresees a country of united South Slavs in 2011. Yugoslavia, in the enlightened vision of Novaković, will appear and strengthen due to scientific and economic development on one hand and common culture based on a common vernacular on the other. Elite-driven unification is the only mode for South Slavs to survive facing the challenges of modernization and the territorial threats of their neighbors. Accurate in some and grossly naïve in other aspects, this text is a testimony of Yugoslav ideas preceding the actual creation of the state, as shared by the most prestigious among the Serbian intellectual elites.
- Subjects
YUGOSLAVIA; NOVAKOVIC, Stojan; SERBIAN literature; ELITE (Social sciences); SLAVS; POLITICAL fiction; SCIENCE fiction; NATIONALISM in literature; SERBIAN fiction; EUROPEAN science fiction; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 6, p997
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00905992.2011.619180