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Stjepan Radić
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Croatian politician (1871-1928)
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Succeeded by
- Vladko Maček
- Prime minister
- Nikola Uzunović , Velimir Vukićević , Anton Korošec
- Born
- ( 1871-07-11 ) July 11, 1871, Desno Trebarjevo , Croatia-Slavonia , Austria-Hungary (modern Croatia )
- Died
- 8 August 1928 (1928-08-08) (aged 57), Zagreb , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (modern Croatia )
- Resting place
- Mirogoj Cemetery , Zagreb , Croatia
- Citizenship
- Hungarian-Croatian (1871–1918), Yugoslav (1918–1928)
- Party
- Croatian Peasant Party
- Spouse
- Marija Dvořák ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1898 )
- Relatives
- Antun Radić (brother)
- Alma mater
- Sciences Po
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stjepan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Place of birth
- Martinska Ves
- Place of death
- Zagreb
- Sibling
- Antun Radić
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- Leader of the Opposition
- Educated at
- Sciences Po
- Political party
- Croatian Peasant Party
- Languages spoken
- Croatian
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2010-0420-502, Stefan Radic, cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stjepan Radić
- place of burial
- Mirogoj Cemetery
- date of death
- 1928-08-08
- date of birth
- 1871-06-11
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- manner of death
- homicide
- ethnic group
- Croats
- relative
- Pavle Radić
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Encyclopedic overview
Stjepan Radić (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croat politician and the co-founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
He is credited with galvanizing Croatian peasantry into a viable political force. Throughout his entire career, Radić was opposed to the union and later Serb hegemony in Yugoslavia and became an important political figure in that country. He was shot in parliament by the Serbian People's Radical Party politician Puniša Račić. Radić died several weeks later from the serious stomach wound at the age of 57. This assassination further alienated the Croats and the Serbs and initiated the breakdown of the parliamentary system, culminating in the 6 January Dictatorship of 1929.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stjepan Radić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.