Original scientific paper
Stjepan Radić and His Journey to Moscow and the Croatian Republican Peasant Party Entering the Peasant International
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
Abstract
Stjepan Radić, the founder and the leader of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, decided to visit the communist Moscow in Spring 1924. This essay deals with his preparations for the journey and his stay in Moscow from 2nd June until 4th August 1924, as well as with the Croatian Republican Peasant Party entering the Peasant International on 1st July 1924.
This essay represents really only a contribution to the further research on Radić's stay in Soviet Union, as nothing but the archive and printed sources approachable to the author inside Yugoslavia were consulted. A thorough research on Russian library and archive material seems necessary, for Radić ought to have had a number of interesting acquaintances among well-known people of Soviet political and cultural life. The survey of chronological data of Radić's stay in Soviet Union is followed, towards the end of the essay, by an exposé of the relation Stjepan Radić - Yugoslav communists, at the time of Croatian Republican Peasant Party figuring as a member of the Peasant International, and the complete failure that the trial of approaching these two dominant trend of the political life of the Versaille Yugoslavia resulted in.
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219210
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Publication date:
30.12.1972.
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