Pantheon on a tablecloth: Yugoslav dictatorship and the confrontation of national symbols in Croatia (1929–1935)

Stipica Grgić

DOI:10.1080/00905992.2017.1357029

Corpus ID: 158362422

Pantheon on a tablecloth: Yugoslav dictatorship and the confrontation of national symbols in Croatia (1929–1935)

@article{Grgi2018PantheonOA,
  title={Pantheon on a tablecloth: Yugoslav dictatorship and the confrontation of national symbols in Croatia (1929–1935)},
  author={Stipica Grgi{\'c}},
  journal={Nationalities Papers},
  year={2018},
  volume={46},
  pages={458 - 470}
}

Stipica Grgić

Published 2018

Political Science

Nationalities Papers

This paper questions the effects of the state- and nation-building that occurred in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the 6 January Dictatorship (1929–1935) and points to the importance of symbols during this process. By using an ethno-symbolist approach and extending it to “banal nationalism,” the article analyzes some of the most prominent and influential symbols from within an everyday environment. Using the Croatian ethnic space as a framework, the article traces the population’s attitudes… CONTINUE READING

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