Vseslovenska ljudska stranka

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The Vseslovenska ljudska stranka (VSLS, All-Slovene People's Party) was a Slovene party founded in Austria-Hungary in 1909 .

history

After the electoral reform of the Krainer Landtag passed in 1908, the previous Slovenian-German liberal coalition in the crown land of Krain ended and the Slovenska ljudkska stranka (SLS, Slovenian People's Party) was able to win an absolute majority in the Landtag. As a result, the Carniolan Catholic leaders took the initiative to unite the previously independent Slovenian parties in the crown lands. In 1909 they succeeded in founding the VSLS at a large meeting in Ljubljana , in which the SLS and the Slovenska ljudska stranka za Goriško (Slovenian People's Party for the Land of Gorizia), the Slovenska kmečka zveza za Štajersko (Slovenian Farmers' Union for Styria) and the Katoliško-politično in gospodarsko društvo za Slovence na Koroškem (Catholic-Political Association for Slovenes in Carinthia) united. The representatives of the VSLS saw the founding of the party as a first step towards a United Slovenia, with the Carniolan Catholic leaders dominating the party leadership. The VSLS comprised a conservative wing around the Reichsrat MPs Ivan Šusteršič and Anton Korošec as well as a democratic-Christian-social wing. After the parties, the Catholic workers' organizations of the Crown Lands also united in the autumn of 1909 to form the "Jugoslovanska strokovna zveza" (JSZ, South Slavic Association). In addition, the VSLS relied on the expansion of the association's activities in the area of ​​educational, teacher and student associations as well as credit and farmers' cooperatives.

The VSLS pursued a south-Slavic, trialist orientation and originally relied on expanding its influence to the entire south-Slavic settlement area in the Habsburg monarchy, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. In fact, their distribution was limited to the Slovenian part of Cisleithania . In 1912, analogous to the Hrvatsko-slovenski Klub (Croatian-Slovenian Club) founded in 1911 and the South Slavic and trialist-oriented policy of the VSLS, the union with the Stranka prava (party of the law) became the Hrvatska-slovenska stranka prava (Croatian-Slovenian party of the Right). However, this solemnly proclaimed union was never really filled with life.

literature

  • Helmut Rumpler : Between all fronts. The Viennese government and the national political hopes of the Slovenes before 1914. In: Nation, nationalities and nationalism in Eastern Europe. Festschrift for Arnold Suppan on his 65th birthday. Vienna, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-643-50241-4 , pp. 279-296.
  • Peter Vodopives: The development of the national and political organizational system in Carniola. In: Adam Wandruszka , Peter Urbanitsch (Ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy. 1848-1918. Volume 8: Political Public and Civil Society. Volume 1: Associations, parties and interest groups as carriers of political participation. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3540-8 , pp. 503-540.