Newst Historiography (1990-2003) of Bosnia Herzegovina for Period between World Wars

Abstract

The wave of democratic changes at the end of the 1980's and at the beginning of the 1990's in Bosnia Herzegovina, instead of leading towards liberalisation and democratisation of historiography, became a platform for the launching of radical nationalistic tendencies. The 1992-1995 war additionaly vulgarised the processes which had begun several years earlier. This resulted in a horrific devaluation of the historiographic achievements. The perception of the 1918-1941 period was no different in comparison to other eras. Thus, its fundamental characteristic is the difference in approach, which breaks in the prism according to individual ethnic (political) aspects. Among the key questions dealt by historiographers in recent years was the presence of democratic institutions In Bosnia Herzegovina, and, in particular, the question of the continuity of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period between the two world wars. Unfortunately, key historic questions from this period remained unresolved and there were no particular evolutionary changes in the methodological approach. The much desired interdisciplinarity occurred only sporadically.