This paper analyses the natural connection between the Serbian Literary Cooperative, one of the oldest institutions for the book and culture of the Serbian people, and the Republika Srpska, the "youngest Serbian state", created after the collapse of the Communist Yugoslavia and the brutal civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the last century. The paper provides their brief history, emphasizing moments of their interconnection. Special attention is paid to the presence of Serbian writers from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Cooperative's oldest edition, Kolo, from its founding (1892) to the present day, with the aim of pointing out the deep and lasting basis for the connectivity between the Cooperative and the Republika Srpska. In the closing part of the paper, an emphasis is placed on the last few decades and on some innovations that the Cooperative has introduced with the aim of enhancing its influence among Serbs outside Serbia.
Duško Babić (Wed,) studied this question.