KONCEPCIJE OSNIVAČA I LIDERA H(P-R)SS PREMA TERITORIJU I NARODIMA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
THE CONCEPTS OF FOUNDERS AND LEADERS OF H(P-R)SS VIS A VIS THE TERRITORY AND THE PEOPLES OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The ideologist and the founder of political program of HPSS Antun Radić had formulated at an early stage of his political career the position of Croatia towards B&H that rejected a priori the idea of “Greater Croatia”. Main part of this paper observes the concepts and arrangements proposed by the first President of H(P-R)SS (both before and after 1918), and by his successor, Dr Vlatko Maček. Struggling vehemently for the affirmation of Croatian nation and Croatian statehood, Radić treated all Croats as one national group, while he treated B&H, particularly before 1918, as part of Croatia. A new scientific element introduced by this paper is the analysis of these concepts and positions in the Austro-Slav and Yugoslav periods; the concepts whose solutions –as interpreted by S. Radić - were determined by the will of the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, once it takes its own position and makes it public. Maček, and consequently the HSS party under his leadership, tried to solve the “Croatian question” - and, within its context, the status of entire Croatian people as well as parts of the territory of B&H - by the “policy of agreement, i.e., a deal with the Serb (and Serbian) partners, without taking into account the particularities of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.

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