Izvorni znanstveni članak
REPRESSION AGAINST CROATIAN PEASANTS FROM 1918 TO 1921
Bosiljka Janjatović
; Institut za suvremenu povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This article examines various repressive measures, from economic pressure to using force, undertaken against the peasantry, which was the most numerous part of the Croatian nation. This repression was evident from the creation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes right up to the Vidovdan Constitution (1921), which Consolidated centralism and the monarchy headed by the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. The economic measures undertaken by the government in Belgrade, especially taxes that were four times higher than in Serbia, fundamentally affected the situation of the Croatian peasantry. Various measures - new laws, beatings, physical and psychic mistreatment, arrest for minor infractions, persecutions for expressing alternative points of view, and force used against whole villages - worsened the situation. The state applied force above all, but also used legal means to make impossible every expression of peasant discontent, from verbal protest to outright rebellion; especially important was the refusal to supply the troops. The army and the police, which did not select the means to preserve »law and order«, were used to stamp out protest. The peasantry thus became a symbol of Croatia's subordination in the new state, and in the ensuing years the manner, forms, and methods based on force became a model for the regime's treatment of the peasantry and other resistant groups.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
209968
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.9.1993.
Posjeta: 1.095 *