People's Radical Party
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People's Radical Party
Narodna radikalna stranka |
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| Leader |
Svetozar Marković Sava Grujić Nikola Pašić Stojan Protić |
| Founded | 8 January 1881 |
| Dissolved | 30 November 1945 |
| Headquarters | Belgrade |
| Newspaper | Samouprava |
| Ideology |
Serbian nationalism Conservative liberalism Radicalism (1881–90s) |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Sister party (Croatia) | Serb People's Radical Party (1905–18) |
The People's Radical Party (Serbian: Народна радикална странка; Serbo-Croatian: Narodna radikalna stranka, NRS) was a political party in the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) formed on 8 January 1881. The party was abolished after the establishment of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in 1945.
The founding of the party was related to the circle of Serbian youth followers of Svetozar Marković and Nikola Pašić in Zurich. The leaders of this group proposed a political programme in which they called for:
The first main assembly of the People's Radical Party was in July 1882 in Kragujevac. At this assembly, the Radical's programme, inspired by the French Radicalism, was adopted, and Nikola Pašić was elected as the president of the central committee. At this point the Radical party had its own daily (Samouprava, "Self-Government")which was critical of the ruling monarchy, demanding democracy, public liberties and liberal reforms of the bureaucratic system. The Radical leaders, mostly Swiss and French-educated (Nikola Pašić, Pera Todorović, Pera Velimirović, Jovan Đaja, Andra Nikolić, etc.) with other urban and provincial elites (Stojan Protić, Lazar Paču, Dimitrije Katić, Sava Grujič), were the first that successfully mobilized Serbian peasantry and the provincial middle classes (including teachers, peasant leaders and priests). Among others, Radicals attracted important intellectuals, diplomats and university professor, such as Milovan Milovanović, Milenko Vesnić, Mihailo Vujić, Đorđe S. Simić, Jovan M. Žujović and others.
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