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Kako se je jugoslovanska družba med obema vojnama spopadala s politično korupcijo

Abstract

Building on the allegories of the greatest political “homo politicus” and literary chronicler of the First Yugoslavia, Miroslav Krleža, the author establishes in the introduction that the state was corrupt to its foundations; however, no one was willing to fight it. The article continues with a question as to how it was possible that despite its apparent omnipresence, the fight against corruption was so unsuccessful. Is the impression about vast extent of corruption in the First Yugoslavia wrong? Was the threshold of perception of corrupt acts considerably different (lower) compared to the then-valid standards in the West? Is it possible that society as a whole did not want to fight corruption? The author seeks answers to these questions on the basis of syntheses, theoretical discussions and a case study.