... nation's goals came into conflict with the goals of other nations. An example of this would be Serbian nationalism. Serbia led a movement to unite the regions of Slavs. This weakened the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires as Slavs made up most of Austria-Hungary and there was a fear that Slavic nationalism would result in the countries breaking up. The Radical Party brought the idea of nationalism to Serbia. They mixed nationalist and socialist rhetoric in a way that was new to Serbia and had wide appeal even though it had been discredited by Western Europe in 1848. Yet nationalism was a product of other forces combined with the Radical Party. By the 1880's the Progressive and Radical Parties had agreed to expand free education and nationalism was influenced through schools as curriculums and textbooks were written to convey an emphatic Serbian nationalist message. However, South Slav nationalism was not confined ...

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