“Yugoslavia has nothing. Yugoslavia has no bread. But Hungary gives us bread” : access to food and (dis)loyalty in a “redeemed” Yugoslav borderland

Kosi, Jernej (author)

This article illustrates the socioeconomic background of rural political discontent in the post-imperial Yugoslav border region Prekmurje. The author argues that during the post-Habsburg political transition and ensuing social transformation, the fundamental lack of loyalty to the Yugoslav state among an important segment of the rural population of Prekmurje was rooted in insufficient access to food. Documents of court proceedings, official state reports, and findings of individuals with deep understandings of the situation on the ground reveal that this rural political mobilization was not so much a reflection of Hungarian propaganda or a “lack of appropriate national identification” among the local population—although, of course, these two factors cannot be ignored in a contested and linguistically and ethnically diverse region—but rather an outcome of the impoverishment of large sections of the peasant population.

• Language: English
• Keywords: food, provisioning, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 283-297
• Numbering: Vol. 55
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-166435
• UDC: 94(497.4)"1919/1923"
• ISSN on article: 1558-5255
• DOI: 10.1017/S0067237824000055
• COBISS.SI-ID: 188549635
• Publication date in RUL: 13.01.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Austrian history yearbook
• Publisher: Rice University
• ISSN: 1558-5255
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520850713

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: hrana, preskrba, Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: N6-0190-2021
• Name: Hraniti zmago: Preskrba s hrano in postimperialna tranzicija v čeških deželah in Sloveniji, 1918-1923

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Czech Science Foundation
• Project number: GF21-30350K
• Name: Nourishing Victory: Food Supply and Post-Imperial Transition in the Czech Lands and Slovenia, 1918–1923