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The Yugoslav state which emerged in 1918 owed its existence to the victory of the Allied Powers in the First World War. The immediate cause of that war was the determination of Austro-Hungary, following the assassination of the heir to the Hapsburg throne at Sarajevo, to crush the upstart Serbian state whose assertive policies threatened the integrity of the Hapsburg empire with its large South Slav minority. The new Yugoslav state was established as a unitary Slav kingdom of three nations, Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, though it was dominated by Serbia. The short history of the Yugoslav kingdom was characterised by conflict and crises arising in large part from the friction between the Croats and the dominant Serbs. On the very eve of the Second World War the Serbian monopoly was broken and a Serb-Croat coalition government formed.
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Macfarlane, L.J. (1990). Human Rights in Yugoslavia. In: Human Rights: Realities and Possibilities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11602-7_4
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