Beograd u hodu ka Evropi. Kulturni uticaji Britanije i Nemacke na beogradsku elitu 1918-1941

The study examines the foreign cultural influences on the elites of interwar Belgrade, and traces the channels through which modernizing impulses were received in this period. Great Britain and Germany are identified as the two key role models, whose importance surpassed the attractiveness of France, United States or that of the Soviet Union. The re-emergence of heavy German influence following the Great War as well as the growing presence of British influence are examined through the organizations and institutions that channeled this transfer, as well as through the manifestations of such influences in art, culture and everyday life. Intellectual exchange is traced both by mapping the dynamics of educating Yugoslav scholars abroad and through the transfer of knowledge and technology from Great Britain and Germany to Yugoslavia. In the last years of the inter-war period the ideological relevance of those intellectual affiliations grew. By the years 1939-41 Belgrade’s intellectual elite was sharply divided between anglophiles and germanophiles.