Carpatho-Russian Labour Party of Small Peasants and Landless
Carpatho-Russian Labour Party of Small Peasants and Landless (Rusyn: Карпаторусская Трудовая Партия Малоземельных и Безземельных, Karpatorusskaja trudovaja partija malozemelnych i bezzemelnych, Czech: Karpatoruská trudová strana malorolníků a bezzemků) was a political party in Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia founded in 1919. The party had a 'Greater Russian' orientation. It was led by Andrey Gagatko, who was elected in 1924 to the parliament. The party published Russkaja zemlja.[1]
The party contested the 1924, 1925 and 1935 elections in electoral coalitions with Czechoslovak socialists. In 1929, the party contested elections as part of an electoral bloc led by the Czechoslovak National Democrats.[1]
The party advocated the separation of Church and state. It was opposed to the Greek Catholic Church and supported Eastern Orthodoxy.[2]
Footnotes
- 1 2 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
- ↑ Němcová 2000, 245.
References
- Němcová, Markéta (2000). "Strany rusínské menšiny". In Pavel Marek; et al. Přehled politického stranictví na území českých zemí a Československa v letech 1861-1998. Olomouc: Katedra politologie a evropských studií FFUP. pp. 245–247. ISBN 80-86200-25-6.
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