Making Yugoslavs : : Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia / / Christian Axboe Nielsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Nielsen, Christian Axboe,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 1 figure, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Map --; Introduction --; 1. National Ideology and the Formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes --; 2. "A Tribal and Parliamentary Dictatorship": The 1920s in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes --; 3. Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Dictatorship's First Year --; 4. National Workers of Yugoslavia, Unite! Moulding Yugoslavs, January 1930-September 1931 --; 5. Policing Yugoslavism: Surveillance, Denunciations, and Ideology in Daily Life --; 6. The Return of "Democracy": September 1931-October 1934 --; Epilogue and Conclusion: "Preserve My Yugoslavia," October 1934-May 1935 --; Notes --; Sources and Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442669246; 9783110606812
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442669246
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christian Axboe Nielsen.

When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. 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. By the time Aleksandar was killed by an assassin's bullet five years later, he not only had failed to create a unified Yugoslav nation but his dictatorship had also contributed to an increase in interethnic tensions.In Making Yugoslavs, Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of the dictatorship's program of forced nationalization. Focusing on how ordinary Yugoslavs responded to Aleksandar's nationalization project, the book illuminates an often-ignored era of Yugoslav history whose lessons remain relevant not just for the study of Balkan history but for many multiethnic societies today.