Les positions des partis politiques principaux en Yougoslavie et en Grèce face à la question agraire après la première guerre mondiale

Abstract

As indicated by the title, the article examines the policies of the main
political formations in the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes and in Greece during the early years following the First World War.
Under the exceptional conditions generated by the “Great War” —and, in
the case of Greece, by the Asia Minor disaster and the subsequent influx of
refugees— the issue of land reform came to the fore. Although economic
factors were in play too, j£„was primarily political considerations, chiefly the
desire to stabilise the existing social order, that compelled the parties in power
in both Belgrade and Athens to initiate reform in the early 1920s. Of course,
land redistribution proceeded at a different pace —much more inconsistently
in Yugoslavia, where loyalties within the ranks of the dominant political
groups were divided, whereas in Greece Venizelos’ Liberal Party and its offshoots
adopted a more radical approach.