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Glisin, Vanja (2018): CONTINUITY OF THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE SERBIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY FROM 1918 TO 2018 – CASE OF AP VOJVODINA, CHIVALROUS CULTURE (VII) no. 7, Belgrade, pg. 305-323

CHIVALROUS CULTURE (VII) no. 7, 2018

In the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the accession of Vojvodina to Serbia, besides the occasion fot the celebra- tion of the anniversary, it is necessary to make a brief review with the question „What has it brought us and what has been away taken over the past 100 years?“. The first part of the paper will bi devoted to defi- ning basic concepts such as: identity, nation, national identity, in order to understand the significance of these. Tehn, in second part of the paper, we will present the methods used in order to break the Serbian national identity in time continuity from 1918. This way we come to the third part where, with special reference to the AP Vojvodina, a series of examples will highlight the present state of national identity as well as the possible threat of the same struggle for a new identity of Vojvodina province. We are witnessing the methods used both by in- ternal and external factors in order to completely devastate the Serbian national code, regarding this it is necessary to point out that the traces of Serbian stability are being eroded, falsifying history in favor of synthetic ideas, identity and nations, censuring the truth about the cri- mes committed against Serbs, Serbian language and Cyrillic script are destroyed, Serbian culture, tradition and customs, Serbian Orthodox Church, as a cohesion factor of Serbian people, the territory of the state is fragmented, the national conscious intellectual elite is marginalized and media criminally imprisoned, the guilt which, as a heavy burden, nonexistent „I“, all in favor of fictitious identities, and at the expense of the Serbian one.

THE SERBS AND VOJVODINA: ETHNIC IDENTITY WITHIN A MULTIETHNIC REGION [PH.D. THESIS-FULL VERSION]

This thesis examines the different layers of identity among the Serbs of Vojvodina and their implications for political preferences regarding the basic structure of the state, namely either for regionalisation or for a centralised model of the "nation-state". Its main focus is on the period from the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until present day. In addition to this, an answer is sought to the question whether the Serbian majority and the numerous ethnic minorities form a coherent whole within the Vojvodinian society or if, on the contrary, social segregation along ethnic lines is the case.

From Yugoslavism to Serbism: The Serb National Idea 1986-1996

Nations and Nationalism, 1998

Abstract. During the 1986–96 period, the intellectual debate on Serb national goals was characterised by a previously unparalleled diversity of views. The draft of the Serbian Academy's Memorandum, which sparked this debate in 1986, advocated an ‘integrative’ Yugoslav federation whose primary aim would be to foster Serbism, that is, to facilitate Serb political and cultural unification. After 1988, the differences between Yugoslavism and Serbism became obvious as advocates of Serb unification rejected Yugoslavia as a costly mistake. In rejecting Yugoslavism, some Serb intellectuals insisted on the regeneration of Serbia and its population, while others argued for the primacy of the unification of all Serb-populated lands into one state. The resulting diversity of views may be perhaps explicable by a persistent disagreement among the intellectuals concerning the basis of Serb national identity, as well as by their focus on an exclusivist and collectivist view of national goals; the latter, it is suggested, is a result of the continuing use of the idea of Serb unification as a part of the programme of Serb national liberation from foreign domination.