%0 Journal Article %T CONTRIBUTION OF TRADITIONAL CROATIAN NATION-BUILDING IDEOLOGY TO PROCESS OF DESTRUCTION OF CROATIAN POSITIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA %A Mrdulja£¿ %A Sa£¿a %J - %D 2018 %X Sa£¿etak Crystallization of Croatian nation-building ideology reaches its peculiar culmination at the end of 19 century. Actually, in 1894. when Independent Party of People of Josip Strossmayer and Party of Rights of Ante Star£¿evi£¿ formulated common platform. Its fundamental request was basically directed toward independent Croatian state whose constituent part would also be Bosnia and Herzegovina. Concerning that till then was clear that Ortodox in Bosnia and Herzegovina aspire towards other objectives and that numerical strengh of Catholics in that land was insufficient for realization of Croatian project, special importance had tendency of incorporation the Bosnian and Herzegovinian Muslims in the framework of national Croatianhood. From the aspect of the then occasions, the subject was meaningfully defined as stand point. But the further development of events, especially during the Second World War and during the duration of socialist Yugoslavia, substantially changed previous interrelations. With disintegration of Yugoslavia, Croatian traditional ideology, impossible to shape itself consistently with development of reality with which it should confront, appears on political stage in preserved form. To certain realities, primary to those connected with international imperatives, it had to adapt quickly. But, on the particular levels, it extremely difficult gained acces to modiffication of its deep-rooted perceptions. Like that, and inchanged and substantially more complicated circumstances, it considerably persisted in nearly the fixation on Serbian threat as well as perception of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Muslims in certain pro-Croatian context. With relation of such kind, the ability of understanding contemporary Bosniac national nation-building was essentially decreased and all that contributed to sucessfulness of processes which are, during very long period, stimulated in the purpose of destruction of Croatian position in Bosnia and Herzegovina %K Croats %K Bosnian %K Serbian %K Croatia %K BiH %K Nationality idea %K cantry. %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=341288