ABSTRACT
The Croat Peasant Party was arguably the most important Croatian political party in the first four decades of the twentieth century. The Croat Peasant Party played an integral role in the completion of Croatian national integration by articulating Croatia's first agrarian program with an equally important emphasis on national rights. In practice and particularly after the adoption of the centralist Vidovdan Constitution, the Yugoslav state came to be dominated by Great Serbian elements, namely, Nikola Pa i-ç's National Radical Party. The HSS joined government in 1925 and formed an awkward partnership with its former nemesis, Pa i-ç's National Radicals. Neither the National Radical Party nor the HSS was particularly enthusiastic about their uncomfortable coalition government. Pa i-ç, who did not want Radi-ç in government in the first place, was not prepared to move on any major reforms, and the Radicals became increasingly immobilized because of their own internal problems.
