HOPELESS UNION. SERBO-CROATIAN RELATIONS AND VOJVODINA ISSUE 1848-1868 (1)

Abstract

Since 1848, the national revival in politics of Prečani Serbs had the nature of struggle for achieving collective and civil rights, as opposed to the efforts of the Hungarian political elite to ensure the primacy of the principle regarding the national independence, territorial integrity, and supremacy of a political nation in the territory of Hungary, in relation to other non-Hungarian nations. While the secular and ecclesiastical representatives of Serbs, Serbian deputies in the Croatian Parliament, and Serbian border guards tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to achieve political and social interests in the genuine cooperation and equal alliance with the Croats, Croatian institutions and Croatian political leaders, backed by the absolute authority Ban Jelačić, managed to take advantage of the trust of the Serbian people solely in service of Croatian national policy, in order to achieve the goals which were the essence of the ideological and political construction of the Croatian national and historical right. Two different and essentially mutually contradictory state and national ideas of two Slavic nations, at the time of the Revolution from 1848 to 1849, were the most expressed in relation to the Vojvodina issue.