Original scientific paper
Categories of Austro-Hungarian Army deserters in 1918 (so-called Green Cadres, as they hid in the woods) and their activities in Podravina and Prigorje
Tomislav Bogdanović
orcid.org/0000-0002-6360-1343
; Križevci, Croatia
Abstract
In this article the author gives an account of the activity of the Green cadre, i.e. of war deserters who contributed to the increased dissatisfaction of the people with the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy
due to long lasting war, mass mobilisation, severe losses at the battlefields, requisition and shortage, as well as war profiteering. The Green cadre in Croatia represented a significant component of large
scale social riots which spread to the great extent at the end of the war and in the period of proclamation of the State of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. This paper places the Green cadre in different categories regarding the objective and scope of activity. The riots encompassed the entire north Croatia. The last part of this paper elaborates on the activity of the Green cadre in Podravina and Prigorje.
Keywords
Green Cadres; freedom; Peoples Front of Slovenes; Croats and Serbs; October Revolution; Podravina; Prigorje
Hrčak ID:
107194
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2013.
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