USTANAK U JUGOSLAVIJI 1941. GODINE I KOMINTERNA
THE 1941 UPRISING IN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE COMINTERN

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the documents left by the leaderships of the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Comintern which were written from April to mid-July 1941, demonstrate that the strength of the Yugoslav Communist Party as a party which supported an international ideology and a social revolution lay in 1941 not only in its experienced, strong, underground organization, the free-thinking and rebellious mood of the Yugoslav people, especially the Serbs, and the crisis of the bourgeois society, which became particularly evident in the April war, but also in the strong international stronghold provided by the Comintern (Moscow) as its protector. The part of the Comintern (Moscow) in organizing the uprising (revolution) in Yugoslavia was usually ignored in Yugoslav historiography after 1948 for practical reasons of state and politics, although published documents exist verifying this. This article is a contribution to the analytical rationalization and clarification of this question.

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