'Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb'
Abstract
U raspravi se analizira struktura ideoloških opredjeljenja Stjepana Radića u dosad neobjavljenom spisu što ga je uputio vodstvu Seljačke internacionale kao uvod u moguće pregovore o učlanjenju HRSS u tu prokomunistički usmjerenu međunarodnu organizaciju. Autorica tvrdi kako je pojačani interes u Komunistič koj internacionali za pridobivanje HRSS na suradnju s komunistima u funkciji postupnog razbijanja interesnog jedinstva hrvatskog naroda i potiskivanja utjecaja HRSS-a. Strateški je cilj Komunističke internacionale boljševizacija prostora Balkana i Podunavlja i zato zagovara razbijanje južnoslavenske monarhije kao velikosrpske tvorevine i stvaranje balkanske, ili balkanskopodunavske federacije sovjetskih socijalističkih republika, među njima i sovjetske republike Hrvatske. Središnji je dio rasprave posvećen analizi ideoloških opredjeljenja Stjepana Radića, koji brani interesno jedinstvo hrvatskog naroda pod vodstvom seljaštva, načelo samostalne i nacionalno suverene države hrvatskoga naroda i zagovara konfederalni odnos Hrvatske sa Srbijom i ostalim južnoslavenskim državama. Njegov interes za Seljačku internacionalu samo je taktički potez iznuđen datim odnosima u južnoslavenskoj monarhiji i u Europi.The paper analyses the structure of Stjepan Radić\u27s ideological attitudes, based on an unpublished text — a letter to the leadership of the Peasants\u27 International — which served as an ouverture to the possible membership of HRSS in that pro-communist international organization. The paper also includes the original text by Radić. The author claims that the increased interest of the Communist International for winning over HRSS was in the function of a gradual breakup of the unity of interests of the Croatian people and the curtailment od the influence of HRSS\u27 ideology and policies. The strategic aim of the Communist International was the bolshevization of the Balkans and the Danubian region and that is why it advocated the disbandment of the South-Slavonic federation and the creation of a Balkan or Balkan-Danubian federation of the Soviet Socialist Republics, including the Soviet Republic of Croatia. The central part of the text is devoted to the analysis of Stjepan Radić\u27s ideological attitudes. He upholds the unity of interests of the Croatian people under the leadership of peasants, the principle of an independent and nationally sovereign state of the Croatian people and is in favour of a confederal relationship of Croatia with Serbia and other South-Slavonic states. The Peasants\u27 International was only a tactical move exacted by the existing relationships in the South- Slavonic monarchy and Europe in general
