ABSTRACT
The final months of 1918 were at once a time of great turmoil and of great hopes, during which several new states in East Central Europe were created, including the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SCS). On the Croatian political scene two options were closely examined, one of which roughly corresponded to the Slovene initiative, while another called for the creation of a Croatian state within the Monarchy. The National Council of the SCS was supposed to be composed of deputies of the pre-war parliaments of Croatia and of the other territories, as well as by representatives of the various political parties. Croatia had indeed enjoyed a form of shared independent statehood with the Serbs and Slovenes in 1918. The month of October 1918 brought with it the end of the Great War. The Allied offensive of October 24 on the Italian front had proven to be unstoppable, while Bulgaria had already been defeated on September 25.
