Contemporary History

"Antes de entrar de lleno en la aplicación del análisis y comentario de textos deberíamos pergeñar, siquiera sea brevemente, el marco de especificidad de la propia disciplina contemporaneísta. Cuestiones como su singular significado, sus divisorias cronológicas, la periodización interna, e incluso su contenido y limitaciones, forman parte de las propias interrogantes a las que hemos de responder; teniendo siempre presente la unidad esencial del tiempo histórico.

Before you jump right into the application and analysis of texts should concoct, even briefly, the context specificity of contemporaneísta discipline. Issues such as its unique meaning, their chronological dividing the internal periodization, and even the contents and limitations are part of the very questions to which we must respond, bearing in mind the essential unity of historical time."

"Great political events such as was the First World War led to a metamorphosis of the political tenets of Don Ivo Prodan. On hte eve of the War he was a vehement opponent of any notion about state unification with Serbia. During the War, and especially towards its end, he accepted the idea of a Yugoslavian state. It must be emphasized that Prodan's metamorphosis was conditioned upon a radical shift in political circumstances, but it never went so far as to negate the existence of Croatianness. Aa the moment of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy's destruction he accepted the idea of forming a Yugoslav state, though he never clearly defined his position on how this state should be organized. During November 1918 he supported a decentralization of this state and its organization on republican lines, but faced with a growing and more comprehensive Italian occupation in northern Dalmatia he avoided expressing this view and accepted a monarchy under Karađorđević dynasty. Prodan was far from any notion of an integral Yugoslavism.
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