“The Rasputin of the Vidovdan Constitution”

The Famous Scandals of Radomir Pašić as an Example of Corruption and a (Failed) Fight against It in the First Yugoslavia

Authors

  • Mojca Šorn

Keywords:

corruption, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Yugoslavia, Rade Pašić

Abstract

The author finds that the First Yugoslavia had no ethical infrastructure and that the level of corruption in the country was very high. The corrupt behavior of Rade Pašić, and in particular the “Adamov scandal” are used as examples of individual attempts in the fight against corruption that, however, yielded no results. The article provides (mostly) the Slovene view of corruption because the author focuses in particular on Slovene newspapers (the dailies Slovenec and Jutro), the only media at the time that offered the wider public an insight in the scandals and attempts at “saving the state from the claws of corrupt people” and shaped their attitudes towards such acts.

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Published

2025-08-07

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2013): Zgodovina korupcije in žalitev visokih političnih osebnosti

Section

Prispevki

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Copyright (c) 2025 Mojca Šorn

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