peasants' arms should be confiscated by the army. He charged the Radicals that with their article in Samouprava, they had encouraged the peasants to refuse to give up their weapons. The rebellion was set down in ten days. Most of the party leadership was captured in the aftermath, apart from Pašić, who escaped to the Bulgaria and a few others. The régime sentenced many of these Radicals to death, including the remainder of the leadership in absentia. However, after some time, amnesty was given to certain Radicals, including Pašić, who agreed to enter Obrenović's government in 1887. Đuro Knežević, a member of the People's Radical Party attempted to assassinate ex-king Milan in 1899. Due to his political affiliation, many Party's leaders, again including Pašić, who was still at the Party's helm, were imprisoned. At the request of the court, Pašić agreed to publicly accuse his own party of anti-dynastical activities, and denounce other party members as traitors. Despite all this, he still remained the leader of the Radical Party until his death in 1926, and held a number of important political posts, including becoming prime minister of Serbia for five terms, and of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes for two terms. The story, written in 1901, is intended primarily to satirize Pašić's infamous path to success, and the masses’ relationship with him. The same way the leader in the story is silent and does not impose himself, Pašić was skillful in remaining taciturn, he could always be seen on Party meetings, but hardly ever heard. The leader is oblivious of his own inadequacy, and agrees to lead the people knowing he is blind, and he is indifferent to the pain that his followers were submitted to, just as Pašić had avoided prosecution during Party's time of suffering. Radoje also gave the leader some of Pašić's physical characteristics, including his trademark long beard. Legacy Of all Domanović's satirical stories, “The Leader” is the most homogeneous allegorical story he has written, as it is not pieced together of different short anecdotes like some other of his famous stories (such as “Stradija” or “Dead Sea”). Although written with a particular person and sequence of events in mind, it has successfully abstracted and captured the universal themes of authority, leadership, herd mentality etc. making it one of Domanović's most successful and most reprinted stories. “The Leader” is also the most translated Domanović's