Review article
POLITICAL PROGRAM OF THE WARTIME CROATIAN PEASANT PARTY AND »VOKIĆ-LORKOVIĆ COUP«
Jozo Ivčević
; Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author presents and evaluates political program of the wartime Croatian Peasant Party (CPP) in the Independent State of Croatia. CPP wanted a Croatian state organized on democratic bases, not a totalitarian state. They saw the postwar Croatia either as an independent state or, depending on historical circumstances, as a member of a state of confederal type in which it could keep the characteristics of its national sovereignty. Such program was represented by CPP in negotiations with the Ustasha leaders in Summer of 1943 and in the negotiations with the communist leaders in 1943/44. CPP also tried to carry out that program through the military political coup in the Summer of 1944 (Vokić-Lorković coup). Conspirators were removed by the leader Ante Pavelić, but political program of the wartime CPP was not prevented, in the last consequence, by Pavelić, but the Yugoslav, and among them also Croatian, communists - after the "World War Two communists established the centralized one-party Yugoslav state.
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Hrčak ID:
213631
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Publication date:
5.5.1996.
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