Pan-Serbism

Panserbismus is a term used by critics term to denote a Serb nationalist oriented special form of Pan-Slavism. He was influenced by Croatian students Strossmayer based on the concept Panrussismus in 1903 and the Serb -Croat Coalition Franjo Supilo, the Yugoslavianism or Illyrism Strossmayer and the Neo-Slavism of the Young Czechs and the Russians Masaryk Milyukovs compared.

According to this representation panserbische nationalists and monarchists sought instead of a democratic federation of South Slavic republics südslawisches a great empire under Serbian leadership. Her first success was the establishment of Western Europe in the meantime acquired Serbokroatismus and the Serbo-Croatian language. This linguistic ummäntelte Serbentum ( srpstvo ) simplified acquisition Croats and Bosniaks unceremoniously as a Catholic or Muslim Serbo-Croats the Serbo-Croatians, Orthodox Macedonians or Montenegrins even as Südserben and the Bulgarians who lived in the southeast of the country, to Serbs. In this context, the West Bulgarian dialects were seen as part of the Serbian language and proclaimed a Serbian minority in western Bulgaria.

The Panserbismus had his opponent in the Croatian nationalist movement and in Yugoslavianism. As an important representative of the " Panserbismus " at the beginning of the 20th century, critics consider the Serbian Premier Nikola Pašić. More recently, the Serbian- Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević was considered by some as carrying on the panserbistischen policy, the term " Panserbismus " is, however, rarely used in this context.

In Serbian sources, the term " Panserbismus " used as good as not. He is there as one of Austria - Hungary or representative of the Roman Catholic Croatian opposition in Austria - Hungary created, propaganda and blanket buzzword that mainly the defamation of Orthodox Serbs have for the purpose and the actions of Serbian politicians in one of the national- cultural delusion and superpower fantasies dominated historical context representative of agitation. Serbian nationalists use more than the similarly controversial concept großserbisch. A particularly frequent mention of the term " Panserbismus " find you accordingly in the Austro-Hungarian sources.

Vojislav Seselj, former chairman of the Serbian Radical Party, quoted in his work ideology of Serbian nationalism, a 1915 book published by the French slavonicists and historian Ernest Denis, entitled La grande Serbie in which Denis the Panserbismus than one brought about by foreign powers expression of the Serbian pursuit of a cultural and territorial association characterizes clearly positive. Seselj book is an outline of the work of Serbian statistician, lawyer, historian and university professor Lazo M. Kostić (1897-1979) ( not to be confused with the Serbian poet Laza Kostić ), which after the Second World War for alleged collaboration with the Axis powers from the had to flee the country. Kostic, considered a key ideologue of Serbian nationalism, lived after 1945 in exile in Switzerland and left behind an extensive work, which is published by Šešelj. From official historiographical circles will work Kostićs ignored, he himself finds no mention in the ten-volume "History of the Serbian people " of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.