National ideology and Croatian-Serbian relations in the works of Josip Ljubi？

Sa？etak This article presents an overview of the life and career of lawyer and writer Dr Josip Ljubi？ (1869-1931), with a special focus on an analysis of the development of his national-political views and the reception of his ideas by the public of his time. In the political pamphlets and contributions he had published in periodicals, Ljubi？ worked on “big” topics, striving to find a formula for resolving Croatian-Serbian discord and bringing various conceptions of Yugoslavism to life. Working within the Austro- Hungarian Empire, and later the Yugoslav monarchy, he modified his ideological positions several times more or less radically, altering potential solutions to the Yugoslav Question ranging from a Balkan Federation, through a Croatocentric “Habsburg Yugoslavia” within a reformed “trialist” Austria-Hungary, to a Yugoslav community based on Greater-Serbian foundations. Ljubi？’s ideological wanderings likely also had professional and economic motives, and his incessant search for “sustainable Yugoslavism” reached its zenith in his defence of Puni？a Ra？i？, who assassinated Croatian Peasant Party representatives at the National Assembly in Belgrade