Summary
August Cesarec: Stjepan Radić and the Republic
A contribution to our political history
August Cesarec was born in Zagreb in 1893 in the family of August Cesarec, a carpenter, a well-known native of Starčević, and Kornelija, née Senk. He had an older brother Rudolf, a famous Croatian mathematician, a younger brother Stanko and three sisters, Štefa, Draga and Ivka. Between 1900 and 1904, he attended the Kaptola junior boys' school. After elementary school, he attended high school (1904-1912), when he read a lot of domestic and foreign writers (Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Janko Polić Kamov, Émile Zola, Maksim Gorki, Sergej Kravčinski-Stepnjak, Petr Aleksejevič Kropotkin, etc.). Already as a high school student, he joined the social democratic movement, which is why he was under constant police surveillance and was imprisoned several times, and in 1912 he was arrested and accused of participating in the assassination of royal commissioner Slavko Cuvaj. He was sentenced to 5 years and then to three years in prison. He served his sentence in the Srijemska Mitrovica penitentiary. In 1914, after serving 21 months of his sentence, he was paroled from prison due to tuberculosis. After that, he submitted an application for admission to the Social Democratic Party, but his application was not accepted with the explanation: that the party would not be compromised. Towards the end of 1915, he was mobilized and sent to Kruševac in occupied Serbia. After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in the fall of 1918, he returned to Zagreb. There, the guards of the National Council briefly deprived him of his liberty.
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