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  Croatian Peasant Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It became the dominant Croat party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and is a significant party in Croatia today.
Despite the party's efforts, the kingdom was established, and the HSS became an opposition party in parliament.
With that goal in mind, the HSS renamed itself the Croatian Republican Peasant Party until the royal authorities forced the party to remove the word "Republican" in 1925 because of its anti-royalist connotation.
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 Croatian Peasant Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Some party members were divided among those who sympathized with the Croatian fascist Ustasha independence movement, and those who's left-leaning beliefs led them to join the Partisans.
In 1990, with the advent of multi-party elections, the HSS was reconstituted and won several seats in the Croatian Parliament.
In 2004 the party held ten seats in parliament (nine domestic seats and one minority seat).
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 Croatian Peasant Party --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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 The Pavelic Papers | Documents: Croatian Peasant Party (HSS)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Radic was arrested in December 1924 and the Peasant Party outlawed.
Vladko Macek joined the government and a Peasant Party deputy, Ivan Subasic, served as ban (governor) of Croatia, though HSS delegations continued to visit Italy to press for Fascist intervention in declaring hegemony over Croatia.
The Peasant Party was completely liquidated by the Ustase, which absorbed their youth and other affiliated organizations and welcomed former HSS delegates who crossed over to their side, among them Pavelic's eventual successor, Stjepan Hefer.
www.pavelicpapers.com /documents/hss   (643 words)

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