Chetniks on parade in Belgrade, c. 1920.Association against Bulgarian Bandits, between 1922 and 1925.Chetnik Association, between 1921 and 1926.
In the Interwar period in Yugoslavia (1918–41), there were several veteran associations of Serbian guerrillas (known as "Chetniks") that had fought in Ottoman Macedonia (1903–12), Balkan Wars (1912–13) and World War I (1914–18).
Leading Chetniks were split between the Democratic Party (DS) and Radical Party (RS), and also between ties to the secret societies of the Black Hand and White Hand.[1] These ideological differences led to the formation of several Chetnik associations (četnička udruženja). The first association, established in 1921, was split corresponding to the Yugoslavist DS and Serbian nationalist RS in 1924.[2]
The most important figures in the Chetnik movement in this period were Puniša Račić, Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin and Kosta Milovanović-Pećanac.[3] Following the proclamation of the 6 January Dictatorship by king Alexander I in 1929 and the establishment of the “integral Yugoslavism”, the various Chetnik associations re-organised themself into a single officially sanctioned group, the “Association of Chetniks”.[4] However, even under the homogenizing pressures of dictatorship, the Chetniks were not a monolithic movement.[4]
^Tomasevich 1975.
^Newman 2015, pp. 104–106.
^Newman 2015, p. 104.
^ abNewman 2017.
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