Russian National Autonomous Party

Russian National Autonomous Party
Руська національно-автономна партія
LeaderStefan Fentsik
Founded1935
Dissolved30 March 1946
IdeologyRusyn nationalism
Fascism[1][2][3]
Pan-Slavism
Neo-Slavism
Anticommunism
Antisemitism
Corporatism
Galician Russophilia
Political positionFar-right
ReligionRuthenian Greek Catholic Church
Slogan"Subcarpathian Rus for the Carpatho-Russians!"

Russian National Autonomous Party (Rusyn: Руська національно-автономна партія, romanized: Ruska natsionalno-avtonomna partia, Czech: Ruská nacionálně-autonomní strana) was one of political parties of ethnic Rusyns in Second Czechoslovak Republic. It was founded by Štepan Fencik, just ahead of the 1935 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, in March 1935 in Mukachevo. Fencik was elected to parliament. The party published Nash puť ('Our Path').[4]

The party advocated for full political autonomy of Subcarpathian Rus' within the Second Czechoslovak Republic. Politically, it displayed antisemitic and far-right characteristics.[5] In the programmatic declarations of the party, it demanded recognition of the Carpatho-Russian national minority, support or Slavic ideas and genuine democracy.[4]

  1. ^ Rosalyn Unger (1982). "Subcarpathian Ruthenia". Czechoslovakia, a Country Study. p. 38. Archived from the original on 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ Area Handbook Series. 1989. p. 38.
  3. ^ Giuseppe Motta (5 December 2013). "Czechoslovakia: A Bridge between East and West". Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, Volume 1. Cambridge Scholars. p. 137. ISBN 9781443854610.
  4. ^ a b Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl. Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. München: Oldenbourg, 1979. p. 234
  5. ^ Němcová 2000, 247.