СТАВОВИ ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКИХ КОМУНИСТА О „НАРОДНОМ СПОРАЗУМУ” И БАНОВИНИ ХРВАТСКОЈ 1939–1941.
ATTITUDES OF YUGOSLAV COMMUNISTS TO ”NATIONAL AGREEMENT” AND THE BANOVINA OF CROATIA, 1939–1941.

Summary/Abstract: In the interwar period, the leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia payed a particular attention to the Croat Question, which was seen as a fundamental and indispensable starting point in solving national problems within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. At the same time, among the members of the Yugoslav labor movement, especially the Croat Communists, there was a consistent awareness of possible cooperation with the Croatian Republican Peasant Party/Croatian Peasant Party, while its leaders – Stjepan Radić and Vlatko Maček – were respected as leaders of the whole Croatian nation. In the opinion of the Yugoslav communists, the creation of the Banovina of Croatia, after the agreement of 26 August 1939 between Vlatko Maček and Yugoslav primeminister Dragiša Cvetković, met the prerequisites for the further democratization of the common state. However, even during the second half of the 1939 certain doubts emerged regarding the legislative activities of the authorities of Banovina in the first place. Their discontent the Communists justified with the broken promises of Croatian politicians, lack of democracy, anti-communist attitudes of the Banovina of Croatia authorities, cooperation of the representatives of Croatian Peasant Party with the Yugoslav regime and so on. On the eve of the April war 1941, the Communist Party leaders regarded the Cvetković-Maček Agreement as an act of dividing Yugoslavia between two types of the bourgeoisie.

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