Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.22586/ss.21.1.2
The “Croatian Issue” and the Croat-Democrat Zdravko Kovačević
Stanislav Artuković
; Državni arhiv u Virovitici
Ivica Miškulin
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Zagreb
Abstract
The authors have provided a copy of the party programme of the lawyer and, as he was referred to at the time, royal notary Zdravko Kovačević in Slatina, a distinguished member of the Democratic Party in the Slavonian-Syrmian area. The text provides reflections on the crucial inner political issue of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the discontent of the Croats with the new conditions, with special emphasis on the ideology of Yugoslav unitarism. They are (due to the poor state of preservation of party political and other archival records) interwoven with Kovačević’s valuable (but mostly disregarded in historiography) personal experience during the first years of his political activities in the new state. The document also provides basic information about Kovačević as well as a brief analysis of the text, his motives and the reactions to it.
Keywords
Democratic Party; Croatian issue; Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Slatina; Zdravko Kovačević
Hrčak ID:
266533
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Publication date:
15.12.2021.
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