DRŽAVNO I DRUŠTVENO UREĐENJE JUGOSLAVIJE U GLEDIŠTIMA SRPSKIH REPUBLIKANACA (1919 - 1925)
THE STATE AND THE SOCIAL SYSTEM OF YUGOSLAVIA FROM THE VIEW POINTS OF SERBIAN REPUBLICANS (1919 - 1925)

Summary/Abstract: Basing his work on the written sources - the legacy of the leading figures of the Republican Parity, the author presented their attitudes toward principal matters concerning the State and the Social System of Yugoslavia. The viewpoints of the Republicans had political importance, first of all because their leading characters were the acknowledged intellectuals: academicians (Dr Ljuba Stojanović, Dr Jovan Žujović), men of science (Dr Branislav Petronijević, Dr Mihailo Ilić), and both the old and the young generation of outstanding writers (Jaša Prodanović, Milan Bogdanović, Stanislav Vinaver). Serbian Republicans, politically acting as radical opposition to the established political system based on monarchy and centralism, made their political program, its main items being: the republican form of governing and federal State System of Yugoslavia. They achieved this program gradually by the ariticims of hegemony position of Serbian bourgeoisie and by comprehension of differing interests of each Yugoslav nationality. Their economic-social program, based on demands for reducing private property and making means of production a public property, seemed very interesting. Serbian Republicans saw the liberation of workers from hired labor in uniting of all workers and establishing „factories-cooperatives” which they would own together. Republicans preferred the legal fight and reforms to revolution as means of realization of their program. They did not reject revolution, but they realized that revolution was not the way to win against the monarchy. After the unsuccessful cooperation with Radić’s Croatian Republican Peasant’s Party, Serbian Republicans became closer in their viewpoints to the Communist Party of Yugoslavia which was trying at the time to realize the legal forms of its activity.

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