Political Circumstances in Croatia at the Beginning of the First World War

Autor je na temelju relevantne literature te novinskih članaka i izvornih dokumenata iz razdoblja uoči i početka Prvoga svjetskoga rata nastojao odgovoriti na pitanje jesu li optužbe vojnih vlasti s početka Prvoga svjetskoga rata na račun Hrvatsko- -srpske koalicije bile utemeljene, odnosno može li se za istaknute članove Koalicije u to vrijeme s pravom reći da "nesumnjivo naginju veleizdaji". Nakon provedene analize, autor misli da bi se za većinu istaknutih članova Koalicije pouzdano moglo reći da su sve do izbijanja rata bili u vezi s institucijama, koje su nedvojbeno počivale na velikosrpskim temeljima. Primjećujući da civilna vlast u Hrvatskoj na osnovi tih veza ne samo da nije htjela pokretati veleizdajničke parnice nego osumnjičene nije htjela pozvati ni na političku odgovornost, pa je i intervenirala u njihovu korist, autor zaključuje da se u tom ogleda sprega velikomađarske i velikosrpske državne ideje, koju je svojedobno primijetio i hrvatski povjesničar, sociolog i politolog Ivo Pilar.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