Radical People's Party
The Radical People's Party ( Serbian Народна радикална странка Narodna radikalna stranka ) was a political party in the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .
It was founded on January 8, 1881 and campaigned for the introduction of a liberal constitution and a constitutional monarchy. In 1883 a peasant uprising against King Milan I supported by the party was suppressed and many party members were arrested or went into exile. After an amnesty, the party first took part in government in 1887. The Democratic Party later emerged from the split-off Independent Radical Party . During the reign after the abdication of Milan I, the Radical People's Party, with its founder Nikola Pašić, took over as Prime Minister in 1891. He was replaced in 1892 by Aleksandar Obrenović by the moderate radical Lazar Dokić .
In 1904 Pašić was again Prime Minister under King Peter I and carried out the desired reforms. The party supported the 1917 Corfu Declaration on the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . Pašić, who was Prime Minister several times after the end of the First World War, died in 1926. After the dictatorship was proclaimed by Alexander I in 1929, the party dissolved. In 1935 Milan Stojadinović founded the Serbian Radical Party , which together with him and Dragiša Cvetković provided the head of government in a coalition until the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. Many of the party members then went into exile.
In 1990 the Serbian Radical Party was formed , which sees itself in the tradition of Serbian radicalism.
Known members
- Puniša Račić (1886–1944), Chetnik leader, member of parliament and political murderer .
literature
- Ljubodrag Dimić: Serbia and Yugoslavia (1918-1941) . In: Österreichische Osthefte . 47, No. 1-4, 2005, pp. 231-264.
- Mira Radojević, Ljubodrag Dimić: Serbia in the Great War 1914-1918 . Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Belgrade 2014.