An attempt to bring light to the controversial matter of Croat nationalism, Mark Biondich's Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928 makes a good start in explaining South Slavic nationalism by dissecting and particularizing it. Biondich's book is focused on a very limited period of time and is centered on one influential Croat historical figure; it is not only a study of party politics, or a monograph, but an account of a top-down nationalist movement. The Croat Peasant Party's 'third way ideology' (79) - with emphasis on state rights, as opposed to the all-encompassing Yugoslavism and the separatist Croat nationalist movement -went on to become an influential mass (rather than class) party, mostly because of Radic's skillfulness in attracting peasants and in making political deals with the intelligentsia (66-67).