TOWARDS YUGOSLAVIA: ON THE SERBO-CROATIAN RELATIONS IN THE SERBIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS (1916-1917)
The article, based on the little-known documents of the Russian State Military Historical Archive, reveals situations of the ethnic conflict in the Serbian Volunteer Corps formed in 1916. The author shows that the first Serbo-Croatian ticking time bomb exploded in 1916, when there was an urgent need to consolidate the efforts of the two peoples in order to fight against the common enemy and for the creation of a "common state". The article emphasizes that the relationships between Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the Volunteer Corps set an example of a microcosm, which itself represents the prototype of the future state of Yugoslavia and its army doomed to collapse before their official foundation.