At the beginning of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and the Slovenes republicanism was the main political tool of resistence towards the integral state and the Serbian domination of the multinational union. Stjepan Radić and his Croatian Peasant Party introduced an agrarian version of republicanism. His political aim was not to tear apart the Yugoslavian framework of the state. He was thinking primarily of a truly democratic regime and local selfgovernment which would have provided the peasants with a greater role in politics. In that struggle republicanism appeared during the second half of the 1920s only as a peripheral conception.

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