Newman, John Paul
(2014)
Serbian and Habsburg Military institutional legacies
in Yugoslavia after 1918.
First World War Studies, 5 (3).
pp. 319-335.
ISSN 1947-5020
Abstract
A major problem of state and institution building in Yugoslavia after 1918 was that the
end of the war was not a complete caesura between separate South Slav pasts and a
unified ‘Yugoslav’ future: much historical and institutional baggage was carried
over into the new state. This was obviously the case with the Yugoslav army, where
creating a new institution entirely from scratch was impossible, given the immediate
internal and external threats that faced the new state and given the prestige and the
military efficacy of the Serbian army. The Yugoslav army was consciously modelled
on the pre-war Serbian army, not only in terms of its institutional framework, but also
in terms of its ethos and ideology. There was little space in this ideology for
commemorating Austria–Hungary’s war, just as there was little space in the
Czechoslovak, Polish or Romanian armies. It was difficult to fuse Austro-Hungarian
and Serbian veterans into one army, and problems were especially acute in the officer
corps. This article addresses some of the successes and failures encountered in the
attempt to fuse disparate and often antithetical military institutional cultures in
Yugoslavia in the decade after the end of the First World War.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Yugoslavia; Austria–Hungary; Serbia; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: |
7632 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2014.1001519 |
| Depositing User: |
John Paul Newman
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| Date Deposited: |
18 Nov 2016 13:20 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
First World War Studies |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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