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Nikola Pašić

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Nikola Pašić , 1845?-1926, Serbian statesman. After studying engineering, he became interested in politics and was elected (1878) to the Serbian parliament. In 1881 he founded the Radical party, which he led for the rest of his life. An opponent of the government of King Milan, he lived in exile from 1883 to 1889. After his return, he was (1891-92) premier of Serbia for the first of many times. Exiled (1899) by King Alexander, he returned to power after the accession (1903) of Peter I and virtually controlled Serbia in the years preceding World War I. Strongly pro-Russian and advocating the creation of a greater Serbia, he adopted a violently anti-Austrian policy after the annexation by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The Austrian government accused him (1914), with cause, of having possessed knowledge of the plot against Archduke Francis Ferdinand , whose assassination precipitated World War I. Pašić led Serbia throughout the war and in 1917 negotiated the union of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (see Yugoslavia ). He was an important figure at the Paris Peace Conference and was premier of Yugoslavia for most of the time from 1921 until his death. Favoring a greater Serbia in which Serbia would control the other sections through a centralized administration, he met bitter opposition from Stjepan Radić in Croatia. Pašić and his party grew increasingly conservative in the latter part of his career.

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Pašić, Nikola

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Pašić, Nikola (b. 1 Jan. 1845, d. 10 Dec. 1926). Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes 1921–4, 1924–6 Born in Zajecar in Serbia, he studied engineering in Belgrade and Zurich, where he became interested in politics. First elected to the Serbian Parliament in 1878, he founded the Radical Party in 1881 and was exiled 1883–9 due to his opposition to the King, Milan I Obrenovic. He dominated Serbian politics from 1891, when he first became Prime Minister, until his death. He pursued the policy of creating a Greater Serbia, to which end he led his country through the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. In 1917 he skilfully negotiated the Corfu Pact, which effectively provided for the creation of a Serb-dominated Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia from 1929) after the War. As Prime Minister of the new kingdom, he furthered Serbian predominance with considerable success, despite the domestic tensions which this caused.

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Pašić, Nikola

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Pašić, Nikola (1845–1926) Serbian statesman and a founder of YUGOSLAVIA. Suspicious of Croats on both political and religious grounds, his ideal was a “Greater Serbia”, including much of Croatia and Dalmatia, with Serbs the master race. However, he signed the Corfu Pact (1917) which resulted in a union of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes into a new kingdom which he represented at the VERSAILLES PEACE SETTLEMENT (1919). He was twice Premier of the new kingdom (1921–24; 1924–26), which adopted the name Yugoslavia in 1929.

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