STVARANJE KOMUNISTIČKE PARTIJE JUGOSLAVIJE
THE CREATION OF THE YUGOSLAV COMMUNIST PARTY

Summary/Abstract: The author presents, in a synthetic form, a survey based on recent research, of the formative process of the Yugoslav Communist Party, up to its breakdown and transition to an underground activity (brought about by a Government ban). On one side, there is the process of growth of a native Yugoslav movement, brought about by the fusion of former social-democratic parties in April, 1919, followed by the acceptance of the revolutionary, communist program at the Vukovar Congress in 1920. On the other side, there is the foreign influence of the Russian Party(the Bolsheviks), transmitted by the Communist International, which steered all communist parties towards the Bolshevik model of organization and action. The Yugoslav Communist Party, the forerunner of many other European communist parties, successfully withstood this pressure, creating its own politics and ladies until its prohibition and transition to illegality. The author pays special attention to the causes of the breakdown, finding them in the decline of the revolutionary situation in the world but also in anarchistic and terroristic tendencies within the Party itself, the result of the Bolshevik theory of a quick approach to a world revolution. These outburst of terrorism among young communists (attempted as assassinations of key government figures), presented the Government an excuse to enact the „Law for the Protection of the State”, prohibiting the Communist Party and suspending its representatives in Parliament and in the local Assemblies.

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