ORGANIZOVANJE OMLADINE JUGOSLOVENSKE RADIKALNE ZAJEDNICE U SRBIJI 1935 - 1939. GODINE
THE YUGOSLAV RADICAL ASSOCIATION'S YOUTH ORGANIZATION IN SERBIA 1935 - 1939

Summary/Abstract: The ruling political party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939, i.e. 1941, the Yugoslav Radical Association (JRZ) began forming its youth organization in Serbia in March and April 1936. The youth organization was formed along with the setting up of district and local committees of JRZ. The organization was formed in the region of the Belgrade City Administration (Belgrade, Zemun and Pančevo), followed in 1936 and 1937 by the establishment of its district and local committees in many Serbian towns. The JRZ Youth Organization acquired its final organizational structure during the Congress held on October 24 1937, in Belgrade, when the Program and Statute were adopted and the Main Committee was elected, headed by Dr. Bojan Pirc. The Youth Organization began publishing its own newspapers. In October 1936 the first edition of »The Association« was issued but this paper ceased to exist in 1937, when the »Young People’s Word« was started, which came out during 1938. The Youth Organization of JRZ played an important part in the election campaign of Milan Stojadinović during October, November and December of 1938 but with the fall of Stojadinović’s government, in February 1939, the Youth Organization went into a serious crisis. The split which occurred in JRZ evoked similar discord in the Youth Organization. The Radical youth organizations lost their primary function and began to decline as this party’s organized form of gathering young people around its ideas.

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