MILAN St. PROTIĆ BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE PEOPLE’S RADICAL PARTY IN SERBIA (The Formative Period: 1860’s to 1903) BETWEEN AND POPULISM DEMOCRACY , Protić . t M. S ISBN 978-86-7179-094-9 BELGRADE 2015 http://www.balkaninstitut.com MILAN St. PROTIĆ BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE PEOPLE’S RADICAL PARTY IN SERBIA (The Formative Period: 1860’s to 1903) http://www.balkaninstitut.com INSTITUTE FOR BALKAN STUDIES SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS SPECIAL EDITIONS 133 MILAN St. PROTIĆ BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE PEOPLE’S RADICAL PARTY IN SERBIA (The Formative Period: 1860’s to 1903) Editor-in-Chief Dušan T. Bataković Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies BELGRADE 2015 http://www.balkaninstitut.com Publisher Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 35/IV Serbia www.balkaninstitut.com e-mail:
[email protected] Reviewers Vojislav Stanovčić, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Vojislav Pavlović, Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Written in English by Author Design by Kranislav Vranić Printed by SVEN, Niš ISBN 978-86-7179-094-9 http://www.balkaninstitut.com Table of Contents Preface . 7 Prologue . 11 Chapter One THE ORIGINS . 17 Chapter Two THE HISTORY . 35 Chapter Three THE SOURCES . 61 Chapter Four THE CHARACTERISTICS . 83 Chapter Five THE STRUCTURE . 103 Chapter Six THE LEADERS . 121 EPILOGUE . 149 Bibliography. 173 Index . 185 http://www.balkaninstitut.com http://www.balkaninstitut.com PREFACE hen, upon my return from Bern, Switzerland, it was suggested to me Wto consider the publication of my Ph.D.