Yugoslav Radical Union

Yugoslav Radical Union

Југословенска радикална заједница
Jugoslovenska radikalna zajednica
Yugoslav Radical Union Југословенска радикална заједница; Jugoslovenska radikalna zajednica
Chairman	Milan Stojadinović; Dragiša Cvetković
Founder	Milan Stojadinović
Founded	1934; 90 years ago
Dissolved	1941; 83 years ago
Split from	Yugoslav National Party
Headquarters	Belgrade
Paramilitary wing	Greenshirts
Ideology	Yugoslav fascism Yugoslav nationalism; Corporate statism; National conservatism;
Political position	Far-right
Colours	Black Green
	Politics of Yugoslavia; Political parties; Elections;

The Yugoslav Radical Union (Serbian: Jugoslovenska radikalna zajednica, Југословенска радикална заједница; Slovene: Jugoslovanska radikalna skupnost, Croatian: Jugoslavenska radikalna zajednica; or JRZ) was the ruling far-right party of Yugoslavia from 1934 until the 1941 coup d'état.

The party, whose agenda was based on fascism, was the dominant political movement in the country until 1939, when Milan Stojadinović was removed as prime minister.^[1] Party members wore green shirt uniforms and šajkača caps, and they addressed Stojadinović as Vođa 'Leader'.^[1]

The party also had a paramilitary wing called the Greenshirts, who assaulted and clashed with those who were against Stojadinović's rule. Stojadinović told Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano that, although the party had initially been established as a moderate authoritarian movement, his intention was to model the party after the Italian National Fascist Party.^[1]

Milan Stojadinović led the party until 1939 when his second cabinet collapsed due to his pro-Axis policy. He was replaced by Dragiša Cvetković as prime minister and de jure party leader. The party practically ceased to exist with the formation of the Cvetković–Maček government in 1939, although JRZ was not formally abolished or dissolved.

References

Payne, Stanley G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299148742.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Payne (1996), p. 325
^ Jerezin đavo, Danas
^ Srpska premijerka na grobu profašističkog premijera, Al Jazeera Balkans, 21 December 2019
^ Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. [...] fascist Italy [...] developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,