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„To use all opportunities“: Alternative Political Strategies of Croatian peasant Party (1918-1941)

Croatian history between the two World Wars has been marked by the struggle for federalization of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes /Yugoslavia (1918-1941). This struggle was lead by Croatian Peasant party which, during the 1930s, had grown from the main opposition party into the national movement. The repressive state politics and the period of direct dictatorship (1929-1035), forced The Croatian Peasant Party (CPP) to use numerous alternative (nonviolent) methods of political struggle. The most typical ones are analyzed here: the boycott of any means of cooperation with the government (refusal to participate in any state or governmental bodies), the development of a wide network of organizations which were self-sustainable, the usage of culture as a method of political struggle (especially during dictatorship), and symbolic resistance through celebration of their own holidays (while boycotting the state ones).

Croatian Peasant Party; federalism; nonviolent struggle; cultural nationalism; political symbols; political celebrations

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