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
