Political circumstances in Croatia at the beginning of the First World War/Politicke prilike u banskoj hrvatskoj na pocetku prvoga svjetskog rata

On the bases of relevant literature' newspaper articles and authentic documents dating from the beginning of the First World War' the author made an effort to answer the question whether the accusations of the military authorities against the Croat-Serb coalition were justified. In other words' the goal of this work is to establish whether it is right to claim that the eminent members of the Coalition "undoubtedly leant towards high treason". After the analysis' the author presumes that it is accurate to say that most of the eminent members of the Coalition were' in the period before the breakout of the First World War' linked to institutions which were based on the Greater-Serbian idea. The author notices that the civil authorities in Croatia not only failed to institute legal proceedings against them' but also ignored to hold them politically accountable and intervened on their behalf. The author concludes that the above mentioned observations reflect the conjugation between the Greater-Hungarian and Greater-Serbian idea' which was formerly noticed by the Croatian historian' sociologist and political scientist Ivo Pilar. Keywords: First World War' Croatian government' military authorities' Croat-Serb coalition Autor je na temelju relevantne literature te novinskih clanaka i izvornih dokumenata iz razdoblja uoci i pocetka Prvoga svjetskoga rata nastojao odgovoriti na pitanje jesu li optuzbe vojnih vlasti s pocetka Prvoga svjetskoga rata na racun Hrvatsko-srpske koalicije bile utemeljene, odnosno moze li se za istaknute clanove Koalicije u to vrijeme s pravom reci da "nesumnjivo naginju veleizdaji". Nakon provedene analize, autor misli da bi se za vecinu istaknutih clanova Koalicije pouzdano moglo reci da su sve do izbijanja rata bili u vezi s institucijama, koje su nedvojbeno pocivale na velikosrpskim temeljima. Primjecujuci da civilna vlast u Hrvatskoj na osnovi tih veza ne samo da nije htjela pokretati veleizdajnicke parnice nego osumnjicene nije htjela pozvati ni na politicku odgovornost, pa je i intervenirala u njihovu korist, autor zakljucuje da se u tom ogleda sprega velikomacarske i velikosrpske drzavne ideje, koju je svojedobno primijetio i hrvatski povjesnicar, sociolog i politolog Ivo Pilar. Kljucne rijeci: Prvi svjetski rat, hrvatska vlada, vojne vlasti, Hrvatsko-srpska koalicija