Border, identity, everyday life. The Souh Slavs of Gara in state security documents (1945-1956)

Vukman, Péter (2023) Border, identity, everyday life. The Souh Slavs of Gara in state security documents (1945-1956). ÉTUDES SUR LA RÉGION MÉDITERRANÉENNE – MEDITERRÁN TANULMÁNYOK, 33 (Spec.). pp. 251-264. ISSN 0238-8308

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Abstract

The Baja Triangle, also known as Northern Bácska, geographically roughly included the area between Baja (in Hungary), Subotica and Sombor (in Serbia). It has been a multiethnic region for centuries, inhabited by Hungarians, Germans, and South Slavs. The physical prox- imity of the border and its separating function had a fundamental impact on the daily lives of the Hungarians and South Slavs living here, especially after 1948, when, because of the escalation of the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict, Hungarian-Yugoslav relations also became frosty. In my paper, I will examine how the fluctuating Hungarian–Yugoslav relations following World War Two affected the South Slavs living there in connection with Gara, a multieth- nic village close to the Hungarian–Yugoslav border, how it affected their everyday life, their ideas about the border, their identity and their relationship with other nationalities.

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