International Agrarian Bureau
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The International Agrarian Bureau was founded in 1921 by the Agrarian parties of Bulgaria
, Czechoslovakia
, Croatia
, and Poland
growing to 17 political parties in Eastern Europe by 1928. It was sometimes referred to as the "first Green International". The Bureau was a key competitor with the Red Peasant International
sponsored by the Communist International or Comintern. In 1947, the Bureau assumed the name of the International Peasants' Union. Stanisław Mikołajczyk was the president of the organization at one point.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, and Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
growing to 17 political parties in Eastern Europe by 1928. It was sometimes referred to as the "first Green International". The Bureau was a key competitor with the Red Peasant International
Red Peasant International
The Red Peasant International, generally called by its Russian abbreviation Krestintern, was an international peasants organization formed by the Communist International in October 1923. The organization was dissolved in 1939....
sponsored by the Communist International or Comintern. In 1947, the Bureau assumed the name of the International Peasants' Union. Stanisław Mikołajczyk was the president of the organization at one point.
International Peasants' Union
- Agrarian PartyAgrarian Party (Yugoslavia)The Agrarian Party was a political party within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1919....
(Serbia) - Bulgarian Agrarian People's UnionBulgarian Agrarian People's UnionBulgarian Agrarian National Union also tiranslated to English as Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union is a political party devoted to representing the causes of the Bulgarian peasantry. It was most powerful between 1900 and 1923. In practice, it was an agrarian movement...
(Bulgaria) - Croatian Peasant PartyCroatian Peasant PartyThe Croatian Peasant Party is a center and socially conservative political party in Croatia.-Austria-Hungary:The Croatian People's Peasant Party was formed on December 22, 1904 by Antun Radić along with his brother Stjepan Radić. The party contested elections for the first time in the Kingdom of...
(Croatia) - Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union (Lithuania)
- National Peasants' PartyNational Peasants' PartyThe National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
(Romania) - Smallholders PartyIndependent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic PartyThe Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party is a political party in Hungary...
(Hungary)
Sources
- Carlson, Allan C.Allan C. CarlsonAllan C. Carlson is a scholar and professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He is the president of the Howard Center, a director of the Family in America Studies Center, the International Secretary of the World Congress of Families and editor of the Family in America...
Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies -- and Why They Disappeared. ISI Books (2007) - Goldman, Ralph M. The Future Catches Up: Selected Writings of Ralph M. Goldman. iUniverse (2002), http://books.google.pt/books?id=yJWlDYuoT5sC&pg=PA58&dq=Green+International+intitle:The+intitle:Future+intitle:Catches+intitle:Up+intitle:Selected+intitle:Writings+intitle:of+intitle:Ralph+intitle:M+intitle:Goldman&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=Green%20International%20intitle%3AThe%20intitle%3AFuture%20intitle%3ACatches%20intitle%3AUp%20intitle%3ASelected%20intitle%3AWritings%20intitle%3Aof%20intitle%3ARalph%20intitle%3AM%20intitle%3AGoldman&f=falsepp. 58-59].