Vol.1, No 6, 1999 pp. 35 - 42
UDC 796.06(091):372.879.6
Review Paper

SOKOLSTVO - THE NATIONAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENT OR A POLITICAL PARTY?
Zvezdan Savić, Dijana Savić
Faculty of physical education, University of Niš, Serbia and Montenegro

Abstract. By studying the historiographic projects, one can see that the history of Sokolstvo doesn't have an appropriate place in Serbian historiography, whereas there might be certain vagueness, perplexity and misuse of this national movement which left its trait in the physical culture of its time.
This study was provoked by the negative tendencies in presenting the Sokolstvo and its inadequate treatment by certain social institutions.
Hereby it should be pointed out that the entire activity in the physical culture (the sports activities) at the end of the XIX and the beginning of XX century up to 1941 was held in Sokolstvo and under its supervision, whereas one could feel the influence of Sokolstvo on ideological, political and cultural grounds.
Key words:  Sokolstvo, physical culture, physical education, national movement, political party.

SOKOLSTVO - NACIONALNI POKRET, POLITIČKI POKRET ILI POLITIČKA PARTIJA
Izučavajući istoriografske projekte, uviđa se da Sokolska istorija nije dobila odgovarajuće mesto u srpskoj istoriografskoj nauci, pa se stoga možda i javljaju određene nejasnoće, neodumice i zloupotrebe ovog nacionalnog pokreta koji je obeležio i fizičku kulturu toga vremena.
Ovo istraživanje podstaknuto je negativnom tendencijom prezentiranja Sokolstva i njegovim neadekvatnim tretmanom u društvu od strane pojedinih institucija.
Ovom prilikom treba istači da se celokupna aktivnost u fizičkoj kulturi, tj. sportske aktivnost,i na našim prostorima sa kraja XIX i početkom XX veka, pa do 1941. godine, upravo odvijala u Sokolskim društvima i pod njihovim nadzorom, a samim tim osećao se i uticaj Sokolstva na ideološkom, političkom i kulturnom planu