Od jugoslovanstva do jugoslovanstva: Komunistična partija Jugoslavije in njen odnos do nacionalnega vprašanja v prvih desetletjih obstoja

Abstract

Communist Party of Yugoslavia was an all-Yugoslav political party. In the year 1922/23 the debate between the Left and Right current of the Party on their stand toward the national started. Because of the changed domestic and international political position, the CPY gradually changed their stand toward the Yugoslav state and the national question until the mid-1920s. The Author argues, that in the mentioned period the CPY, as well as other European Communist parties, started using and misusing national symbols and speaking the "language of the nation". With the outbreak of the Second World War the Croatian and Slovenian communists gave an emphasis to the national question over the socialist promises in the early stages of the war. Only when, in years 1942/43, the constellation of international events in year 1942/43 made it clear that the Allies will allow only the renovation of Yugoslavia, the CPY again started to actively promote Yugoslavism.