Original scientific paper
ANTE TRESIĆ PAVIČIĆ AND HIS EARLY EXPERIENCES AS A MEMBER OF PARTY OF RIGHT
Stjepan Matković
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author analyses the early period in the life of a known Croatian author and politician Ante Tresić Pavičić (1867-1949). Historiography knows little about Tresić's political development and lining up with the Party of Right movement which at the turn of the centuries was affected by the process of deep structural changes. After disunion of the united Party of Right Tresić joined the more radical Pure Party of Right. His decision was crucially influenced by the fact that Ante Starčević - »father of the country« - formally supported formation of that party. At that time Tresić was the editor of literary-political paper Novi Viek which, first of all, criticized the members of the »progressive youth« from the point of view of preserving the values of Croatian tradition and political heritage of Party of Right. At the same time, Tresić often expressed in this paper his personal political opinions, which disagreed from the policy of Pure Party of Right. Political disagreement and the lack of financial means for Tresić's paper ended with a break and his going over to the other wing of Party of Right. In the new milieu Tresić developed Slavophilic views, and in his polemics with Josip Frank, the leader of Pure Party of Right and christianized Jew, he expressed antisemitic attitudes. His antisemitism should be considered in the context of his personal reckoning with the opponent and making use of his origin. After an intimate and tragic scandal Tresić left Zagreb and took a direction which was to denote a new period in his political life. That period was characterized by his active struggle for building Yugoslav state and nation on the residues of the Habsburg Monarchy.
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213908
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Publication date:
4.10.1996.
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