ZEMLJORADNIČKA STRANKA
THE AGRICULTURAL PARTY

Summary/Abstract: The Agricultural Party was founded in 1919, followed immediately by the first edition of its paper »The Farmer«. In the post-war stratification of the Serbian village the party did not succeed in gaining significant political influence due to the simultaneous rise of a more powerful political group, the Farmers’ Union. Reduced to a regional position (its followers were mostly centered in the Kosmaj region), the Agricultural Party attempted to strengthen its political status by proposing a radical economic, social and national program, demanding fundamental changes in the social and political system of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croatians and Slovenians similar to those proposed by the Croatian Republican Farmers’ Party with! which it had begun associating. The views of the Agricultural Party had become close to those of the revolutionary movements (the Yugoslav Communists and the Bolsheviks) resulting in the parity’s formal joining of the Farmers’ International in Moscow in the summer of 1925, as the representative of the Serbian farmers. The burden of this political responsibility proved to be too mighty and the activity of the Agricultural Party ended in the course of 1926. An unsuccessful! attempt supported by the Government of Stojadinović, at reviving the party’s political activity was made in 1955.

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