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Vladko Maček and Croatian History: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

SABRINA P. RAMET
SABRINA P. RAMET*
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Dragvoll, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War (PRIO), Oslo; [email protected].
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Vladko Maček (1871–1964) became the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the assassination of Stjepan Radić (1871–1928). In this capacity, he played a pivotal role in Croatian and Yugoslav politics during the critical years 1928–41, when the clouds of war were gathering over Europe, and during the first phase of World War Two. Today he is best remembered for having negotiated the Cvetković-Maček Sporazum (agreement) in August 1939; the Sporazum created a so-called banovina (province) of Croatia with considerable autonomy, and was intended to contribute to the calming of Serb–Croat frictions in royal Yugoslavia. The Banovina comprised 26.6 per cent of the territory of Yugoslavia and had some 4.4 million inhabitants, 28.6 per cent of the total population of the kingdom.1 However, it lasted only until April 1941, when an Axis invasion resulted in the occupation and partition of Yugoslavia.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2007 , pp. 199 - 202
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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10 Regarding the Spanish anarchists, see, for example, Robert Alexander, The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, 2 vols. (London: Janus Publishing, 1999). See also Ernest Hemingway, The Fifth Column, and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (New York: Scribner, 1969). The first edition of The Fifth Column was published by Scribner in 1938, in an edition entitled The Fifth Column, and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

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12 As I argue in my Three Yugoslavias, chs. 1–3, 20.