2019 №3 (64) Article 9

Ya. V. Vishnyakov

SERBIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

UDC 949.711:947.084.22

The article focuses on the interconnection between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the creation of new states which emerged in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the wake of World War I.

The author underlines that in the aftermath of February 1917, the future of the Western Balkans was reconsidered. The previously favored plans of extending the territory of Serbia by claiming back some Serbian provinces occupied by Austro-Hungary (Vojvodina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a portion of Slavonia and Dalmatia) were discarded. Serbia and Croatia were to make one country, while the Austro-Hungarian Empire was to be dissolved. The events of the February Revolution made Russian diplomacy support the South-centered model of the new state. This was only favorable to England and France, which treated this “golem” as a means to dilute German and Italian influence in the region and to neutralize Russian influence in Serbia. All these events were the forerunner to the tragedy awaiting the country which emerged in 1918.

 

Russian Revolution of 1917; N. Pašić; Nicolas II; M. Živković; Serbian Volunteer Corps; Corfu Declaration

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