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Contribution to the research on the Czech minority activities in the Sava Banovina during the 1930s
Vlatka Dugački
orcid.org/0000-0003-1855-3562
; Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb
Sažetak
The paper analyses key segments of the Czech minority activities in the Sava Banovina during the 1930s, with the emphasis on the 1933 and 1936 local elections, and 1935 parliamentary elections. Although the Czechs have, since the founding of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, supported the ideology of Yugoslavian unitarism and centralism, for which they were in turn rewarded in the 1931 Yugoslavian Constitution with the right to establish minority schools and to place members of the Czech minority as substitutes on the government list during the 1931 parliamentary elections, systematic prolonging of the solution to the question of citizenship for a large number of members of the Czech minority and general impoverishment of the Czech peasantry and tradesmen in smaller rural communities due to the great economic crisis , as well as the corruption of the Yugoslavian governing apparatus, led to the political stratification of the Czech minority. While a part of the Czech minority gathered around the Czechoslovakian Union continued to support state unitarism and centralism, in order to preserve their own positions, Czech peasantry started to incline towards the oppositional Croatian Peasant Party that offered to solve their economic problems and by publicly acknowledging Czech cultural and national individuality ensured the support of those minority members gathered around the Czechoslovakian Union that, through the newspaper Jugoslávští Čechoslováci, openly started arguing for the solution to the Croatian question.
Ključne riječi
Czech minority; Sava Banovina; Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
128747
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.10.2014.
Posjeta: 1.130 *