Između izvornog i novog - "Seljačka sloga" do 1929. godine
Between Autochthonous and New - "Peasant Concord" until 1929

Summary/Abstract: The main role of "Peasant Concord", as a cultural and educational organisation most closely connected with Croatian Peasant Party, was in its persistent work in overcoming a longlasting social partitioning into opposite entities: countryside and town. On the one hand, it introduced a distrustful and reserved peasant into political life of the state, it helped him turn economic shifts for his own benefit and taught him to respect his own traditions. On the other hand, it tried to explain and bring closer to town dwellers merits and theworth of peasants. A huge enterprise at creating a new worldview demanded a deep change in the mentality of both urban and rural. society, while the idealization of peasant culture was used in inventing a new identity for peasant society caught in social change. Under traditional peasant culture the ideologists meant not only artistic and cultural values, but also moral precepts such as diligence and honesty, respect of others and most of all, pacifism. New identity, skilfully incorporated in national identity, was consciously intended to help modernization of Croatian society and a final national integration. Political openness and willingness for interethnic and interclass agreements in the 1920s is sharply distinguished from the time after the introduction of a dictatorship, when the optimism was repressed by disappointement, and the era of visions followed by the politics of "realism" and by closing up.

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