Les positions des partis politiques principaux en Yougoslavie et en Grece face a la question agraire apres la premiere guerre mondiale
Part of : Balkan studies : biannual publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies ; Vol.32, No.1, 1991, pages 43-58
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The positions of the main political parties of Yugoslavia and greece with respect to the agrarian question after the first world war
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As indicated by the title, the article examines the policies of the mainpolitical formations in the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats andSlovenes and in Greece during the early years following the First World War.Under the exceptional conditions generated by the “Great War” —and, inthe case of Greece, by the Asia Minor disaster and the subsequent influx ofrefugees— the issue of land reform came to the fore. Although economicfactors were in play too, it was primarily political considerations, chiefly thedesire to stabilise the existing social order, that compelled the parties in powerin both Belgrade and Athens to initiate reform in the early 1920s. Of course,land redistribution proceeded at a different pace —much more inconsistentlyin Yugoslavia, where loyalties within the ranks of the dominant politicalgroups were divided, whereas in Greece Venizelos’ Liberal Party and its offshootsadopted a more radical approach.
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