sk, Republikánska strana zemedelského a maloroľníckeho ľudu , logo = RSZML emblem

, leader = Stanislav Kubr
Josef Žďárský
Antonín Švehla

Rudolf Beran Rudolf Beran (28 December 1887, in Pracejovice, Strakonice District – 23 April 1954, in Leopoldov Prison) was a Czechoslovak politician who served as prime minister of the country before its occupation by Nazi Germany and shortly thereafter, be ...

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Agrarian Academics , headquarters =

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Centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

, newspaper = ''Venkov'' , membership = 670 000 , membership_year = 1936 , international =

International Agrarian Bureau The International Agrarian Bureau (IAB; cz, Mezinárodní Agrární Bureau, french: Bureau International Agraire), commonly known as the Green International (''Zelená Internacionála'', ''Internationale Verte''), was founded in 1921 by the agrar ...

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, country = Czechoslovakia The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants ( cz, Republikánská strana zemědělského a malorolnického lidu, sk, Republikánska strana zemedelského a maloroľníckeho ľudu, RSZML) was a

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

agrarian party of

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

, seen as representing big business and agriculture. In the period up to 1935 it was the biggest and most influential political party in the country. Led by Antonín Švehla and

Milan Hodža Milan Hodža (1 February 1878 – 27 June 1944) was a Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. As a proponent of regional integration, he was known for his attempts to establish a demo ...

, the party influenced Czechoslovak politics between

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and

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. It participated in the Pětka coalition governments, and it was a member of the

History

The party was established in 1922 as a merger of the Czech Agrarian Party and the Slovak

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.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p151 In the 1925 elections it won 45 of the 300 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, becoming the largest party in Parliament. In the same year it introduced an agrarian tariff which was seen as protecting the producers interest, motivated by the country's agrarian crisis. It is argued that it helped the Hungarians more than it did the Slovaks. Prime Minister Udržal was a member of the party, but he lost its support, which meant that he failed to hold his coalition together. Internal struggles within the party grew and the coalition government failed in July 1932. It was consistently the strongest party, forming and dominating coalitions. It moved beyond its original agrarian base to reach middle-class voters.Sharon Werning Rivera, "Historical cleavages or transition mode? Influences on the emerging party systems in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia." ''Party Politics'' (1996) 2#2 : 177-208. Other important figures were Josef Žďářský (Party President 1905-1909), Antonín Švehla (Party President 1909-1933 and Prime Minister 1922-1926, 1926-1929),

František Udržal František Udržal () (3 January 1866 in Dolní Roveň, Kingdom of Bohemia – 25 April 1938 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak politician. A member and leader of the powerful Agrarian Party, his political career started as member of the local D ...

(Prime Minister 1929-1932),

Jan Malypetr Jan Malypetr (21 December 1873 in Klobuky – 27 September 1947 in Slaný) was a Czechoslovak politician. As prime minister during the Great Depression he strong-armed Czechoslovakia into a more rapid economic recovery than elsewhere in Europe. ...

(Prime Minister 1932-1935) and

(Prime Minister 1935-1938) as well as

(Party President 1935-1938 and Prime Minister 1938-1939). The party was not allowed to reorganize after World War II.

Electoral results

References

"Between Interest Representation and Governingthrough Parliamentary Democracy"
(2000). Slavic Research Center,

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, 11 Sept. 2007 *Janos, Andrew C. East Central Europe. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2000. * Miroslav Mareš, Pavel Pšeja
Agrarian and Peasant Parties in the Czech Republic: History, Presence and Central European Context
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