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"This is a Day of Hope and Self-consciousness". Political Celebration in the Interwar Croatia

The problems of adopting symbols which could be celebrated as the joint holidays in multinational state were analyzed on the example of the interwar Croatia. The first was the problem of the state: its discontinuity and its system (centralism, and later the dictatorship, that sparked resistance, and not loyalty). The second was the Croatian politics in which the leading political force became the Croatian Peasant Party. Its political program (federalism) led to the boycott of the Yugoslav state holidays, and its social program to the marginalization of the older (middle-class) national festivities. That created a special situation, in which – in the time of the first mass celebrations of political events - they were neither state nor national, but the party’s, connected with CPP’s political movement (birthday of President Maček, day of the Radić brothers) or with its cultural campaigns (festivals of the folk culture). The aim was to reconstruct their organisation (mobilization of the populace in a structured way), network (interrelationship city/village), design (civic, all-inclusive) and (supra)national frame of the celebrations.

national symbols; national day; Craotian Peasant Party

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