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BAN MATKO LAGINJA'S REPORT ABOUT PEASANT UPRISING IN NORTHWSTERN CROATIAIN SEPTEMBER 1920
Bosiljka Janjatović
; Institute of Contemporary History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
With an introductory analysis of sociopolitical situation and the position of peasantry during the period 1918-1920, the author presents the integral text of the Croat ban Matko Laginja's raport, which he sent on 24 September 1920 to the government in Belgrade. It is supplied with notes about the literature and the sources as well as significant events and people. This is the first time that this report is being published in its entirety, and it represents the most important source about the great peasant uprising in 1920 in Bjelovar-Križevci , Zagreb , and Varaždin provinces. The insurrection was caused by a forced supplementation of military reserves ( bran ding of animals, especially horses, and registration of carts), but its roots were in a general discontent of Crpat peasants with the centralized and unitarian regime and the Karađorđević' s monarchy. The revolt of several thousands of peasants sawits bloody end. Fifteen peasants were killed, dozens were wounded, and a few hundred were sentenced to long prison sentences.
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Hrčak ID:
190683
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Publication date:
1.7.1992.
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