Ruthenian_Peasants_Party

Ruthenian Peasants Party

Ruthenian Peasants Party

Political party in Czechoslovakia

Ruthenian [Bread-producing] Peasants Party (Rusyn: Руська хліборобська партія, romanized: Ruska khliborobska partiya) was a political party in Czechoslovakia. The party was founded in 1920. The most prominent personality in the party was Avgustyn Voloshyn, a renowned linguist from Uzhhorod. The party published the weekly newspaper Svoboda.[4]

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In 1923, the party changed name to Christian People's Party (Rusyn: Християнсько-народна партія, romanized: Christijansko-narodna partija). In 1924, the party merged into the Czechoslovak People's Party.[4] The Czechoslovak People's Party kept the name "Christian People's Party" in Subcarpathian Rus'.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Rosalyn Unger (1982). "Subcarpathian Ruthenia". Czechoslovakia, a Country Study. p. 38. Archived from the original on 24 January 2024.
  2. [2]
    Area Handbook Series. 1989. p. 38.
  3. [3]
    Giuseppe Motta. "Czechoslovakia: A Bridge between East and West". Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, Volume 1. p. 137. ISBN 9781443854610.
  4. [4]
    Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl. Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. München: Oldenbourg, 1979. p. 233
  5. [5]
    "Statistisches Handbuch der Čechoslovakischen Republik" (in German). 1932. p. 403.
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