Add to ORKGThe article presents the circumstances of the creation, at the beginning of the twentieth century, of the Croatian Peasants Party. It emphasizes that its founders, and then leaders, Dr Stepan Radić and his brother Antun Radić, were part of the group of prominent representatives of the peasant class, who, having obtained an education and a higher position in life did not forget the social stratum from which they came and decided to gain for that class an appropriate position in society and the nation. The Radić brothers together with their colleagues, including Dr Vladko Maciek, entered the inner circle of the leaders of peasant Central Eastern and Southern Europe that were embarking on such a plan. Dr S. Radić became an distinguish...