The name Stjepan Radic is as well known to Croatians as Sir John A. MacDonald is to Canadians. In 1904, Radic mobilized the peasantry to form a populist movement that resulted in the Croat Peasant Party. The CPP fought to reform Yugoslavia's centralist state system and to amend the structural flaws of the parliamentary system. His assassination in 1928 marked the end of the country's short democratic experience; a royalist dictatorship immediately followed. Croatia failed to achieve statehood or autonomy within Yugoslavia, but Radic's indisputably dominant role in the formation of Croatian national consciousness is widely celebrated among Croatians today.
The story of this charismatic, ideologically eclectic politician and his role in nation-building makes for fascinating reading. In North America, with our increasing involvement in the political conflicts of the former Yugoslavia, we cannot afford to remain ignorant of the major historical forces involved in the early Serb/Croat struggles for power and identity. This is an essential work for political scientists and other specialists in the area.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 949.7201/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-ci---
- ISBN
- 0802047270 9781442680203
- LCCN
- DR1589.R33
- LCCN Item number
- B56 1999eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 344 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600650 (OCoLC)288106043 (CaOOCEL)418020
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- PREFACE 8
- ABBREVIATIONS 14
- 1 Introduction and Historical Background 18
- 2 Stjepan Radić: The Formative Years, 1871–1904 42
- 3 Agrarianism and National Integration: The Ideology and Organization of Croat Peasantism 77
- 4 Stjepan Radić, Croatianism, Yugoslavism, and the Habsburg Monarchy 106
- 5 The Revolt of the Masses: Stjepan Radić, the HPSS, and the Great War, 1914–1918 135
- 6 The Neutral Croat Peasant Republic and the Politics of National Mobilization, 1918-1925 164
- 7 Stjepan Radić and the Croat Question, 1925–1928 222
- 8 Conclusion 260
- NOTES 270
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 326
- INDEX 344
- A 344
- B 344
- C 345
- D 347
- E 348
- F 348
- G 349
- H 349
- I 350
- J 350
- K 350
- L 351
- M 351
- N 352
- O 353
- P 353
- R 355
- S 356
- T 358
- U 358
- V 359
- W 359
- Y 359
- Z 359
