Original scientific paper
CRASH OF THE RADIĆ'S PEASANT PARTY ECONOMIC ESTABLISHMENTS OR POLITICAL LIOUIDATION OF JOSIP PREDAVEC, PARTY'S VICE - PRESIDENT IN 1930
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
From 1921 to 1929 several economic establishments were founded for the needs of the Radić's party and its membership. The most prominent were Croatian Peasant Hali at Zrinjevac in Zagreb (1921); The Main Society of the Alliance of the Croatian Peasant Societies, which was helping Croatian peasants in modernization of their farms; the insurance society »Providence«; and The Croatian Peasant Cooperative Bank (Selo-banka – Willage-bank). Josip Predavec, whose education in economics in Bohemia brothers Radić helped, was one of the leading men of these establishments, and after: Stjepan and Pavle Radić's death the principal one. Thinking that a greater economic independence of Croatia can be achieved by strengthening Croatian peasants' economic base – thus also resisting the Great-Serbian exploitation of Croatia – Predavec made every effort to preserve those institutions. Since all State financial institutions barred financing of the economic establishments of the Peasant Party, Predavec had to resort to somewhat unusual, even though not illegal, methods of financing. The Belgrade government could not ruin Peasant Party's establishments until the dictatorship of king Alexander, when Predavec was accused and sentenced f o r business misconduct.
The article, written on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of Predavec's assassination in 1933 in Dugo Selo, attempts to rehabilitate him.
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210126
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Publication date:
1.4.1994.
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