History of ideology of the Socialdemocratic party of Croatia and Slavonia at the transition from the Habsurg Monarchy to the monarhistic Yugoslavia

Rad ne sadrži sažetak.This graduate thesis investigates the history and ideology of the Socialdemocratic party of Croatia and Slavonia in the period of disintegration of the Austo-Hungarian Monarchy and in the early years of the monarhistic Jugoslavia. Its goal is two-part. On one side it tries to postulate historiographicly neglected subject of the historical development of the mentioned political party, and on the other side, it investigates the ideological preferences of the Party and of social democrats whose identity is articulated through this preferences. The dominant historical sources used are the newspapers published by the social democrats. Both the main tendencies of the Party's historical activity and its ideology are extrapolated from the newspaper publications that are critically analysed using historiographical and linguistic methods. The thesis concludes that the Socialdemocratic party of Croatia and Slavonia was an important organisation in the political life of this period of history and that it was usually unrightfully neglected in historiography. The reasons for the downfall of the Pary are found in the complex political context of the time and in its inadequate policies and political practises