Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 51 No. 1, 2008.
Review article
A letter of IMRO's leader Todor Aleksandrov to Stjepan Radić from 1924
Željko Karaula
Abstract
In historiographic literature of Croatian and Macedonian provenance contacts between Stjepan Radić and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) (in Macedonian: Vnatresnata Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija or VMRO) are not explored enough, and even if they are mentioned from time to time they are commented in a kind of adventurously-romantic and revolutionary tone. It should be noticed that status of Macedonian people in the new State was much worser than that of Croatian people and that, talking about solution of „Macedonian matters“, radical concepts were prevailing in Macedonia, opposite to the pacific policy of Stjepan Radić and his Croatian Republican Peasant Party (CRPP) (Hrvatska Republikanska Seljačka Stranka or HRSS). A letter of Todor Aleksandrov sent to Stjepan Radić, published in this paper, was written and sent to him in the middle of August 1924. In that letter Todor Aleksandrov is answering to the article of Stjepan Radić, published in “Balkanska Federacija” (“Balkans Federation”) from July 15th 1924, trying to persuade Stjepan Radić to join his armed resistance to the Belgrade and Serbian hegemony in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians.
Keywords
Stjepan Radić; Todor Aleksandrov; IMRO; May manifesto of May 6th 1924; Kominterna; Macedonian matters
Hrčak ID:
29497
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Publication date:
8.12.2008.
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