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Author: Robert G. Livingston
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Pages : 730
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Author: Robert G. Livingston
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Author: Mark Biondich
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802082947
Category : History
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Pages : 366
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This is a work for political scientists and other specialists in the area."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Michael Mitchell Todorovich
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Pages : 308
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Author: Robert G. Livingston
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Pages : 730
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Author: Robert Gerald Livingston
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Author: Mark Biondich
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The thesis explores the relationship between nationalism and agrarianism. In Croatia the process of national integration began in the 19th century, but it was only completed in the 1920s under the aegis of the Croat Peasant Party (HSS) of Stjepan Radic ́. Consequently, the central focus of the work is the agrarian and national ideology of the HSS. In Croatia, as in most other parts of East Central Europe, the intelligentsia held a central place in the national movement. This was primarily a reflection of the slow rate of socio-economic modernization in the region, and the absence of a large native bourgeoisie or proletariat. However, the Croatian intelligentsia was gradually coopted. It found employment in the bureaucracy of the Croatian state established by the terms of the Croato-Hungarian Nagodba (Agreement, 1868). After 1868 the peasantry tended to identify the intelligentsia, that is, the educated Elite, with the city and bureaucracy and all that they represented, i.e. exploitation of the peasant. By the turn of the century Croatian society, like most other predominantly agrarian societies, was permeated by an immense social and cultural divide between the intelligentsia (the city) and the peasantry (the village). This was a major obstacle to the completion of the process of national integration. The thesis explores the ideology of the HSS from the perspective of national integration. In order to overcome the urban-rural divide in Croatia, the HSS articulated two key concepts: peasant state and peasant right. Peasant right encapsulated the party's agrarian ideology. It legitimized the peasantry's right to a leading role in society and was simultaneously the socioeconomic and political programme of the HSS. Peasant state, on the other hand, was the goal of the HSS and at the same time an important mobilizational instrument to win the peasants over to the Croat national movement. Based on these two concepts, by 1928 the Croat Peasant Party stood in the vanguard of a national movement uniting peasants and intellectuals.
Author: Mark Biondich
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Author: Vladko Maček
Publisher: Penn State University Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Vladko Maček (1879-1964) was born in a small Croatian village and received his law degree in 1903 from the University of Zagreb. One of the early members of the Croatian Peasant Party, he was closely associated with its founders, Ante and Stephen Radic. After the dissolution of the Habsburg empire, Croatia became a part of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and the Croatian Peasant Party emerged as one of the strongest political factions. Elected to the Belgrade Constituent Assembly in 1920, the author became head of the party when Stephen Radic was assassinated in 1928. But King Alexander established a personal dictatorship the following year, and Maček was imprisoned until after the king himself was murdered in 1934. During the latter half of the decade, the Croatian Peasant Party cooperated with several Serbian parties, and despite rigged elections, the combined opposition almost ousted the government in 1938. The deteriorating international situation finally forced composition of Serb-Croat differences, and Croatia was granted substantial autonomy in the sporazum (agreement) of August 1939. Maček became vice-premier in the Belgrade government, and Yugoslavia's worst internal problem seemed solved. But with the collapse of France in 1940, the threat from Hitler and Mussolini became acute, and Yugoslavia was finally forced to adhere to the Tripartite Pact (Germany-Italy-Japan). When a coup d'état by pro-Allied officers in Belgrade reversed the situation on March 27, 1941, Maček at first refused to have any part in the new government. At the same time he rebuffed all Axis approaches and, as the German consulate in Zagreb reported on April 3, "categorically rejected any discussion about an independent Greater Croatia." That afternoon he agreed to resume his old post as vice-premier. Germany attacked Yugoslavia three days later, however, and on April 16 the government fled to Greece. But Maček refused to leave the country and instead returned to Croatia, where he remained in prison or under house arrest until May 1945, when he and his family were able to flee to Austria and the protection of the U.S. Army. After the war the author settled in Washington, D.C., where he helped found the International Peasant Union, representing the suppressed peasant parties of eastern Europe. "Few memoirs are so revealing and rewarding as these," writes E. C. Helmreich; "there may be those who differ with him, but his account of what happened rings true." Not the least of the rewards are Maček's judgments of men and politics, as relevant in 1969 as they were in 1939--for example, his observation that "peasants are the least tempted to become leftists: long political experience has taught me that it is the educated, or semi-educated people, who are most apt to become extremists either of the left or of the right." Or his defense of a voting age of twenty-four in the Croatian electoral law: it "may seem reactionary to some people. But I was convinced then that young people do not have enough experience to size up a given political situation and objectively decide intricate political issues. The fact that Hitler, Mussolini, Pavelic and the Communists recruited their most ardent followers among immature youngsters has done nothing to change my opinion."
Author: Amy Katherine Schmidt
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