SSSR I PITANJE ORGANIZOVANJA ORUŽANOG OTPORA U CRNOJ GORI 1941. GODINE
USSR and the issue of organizing armed resistance in Montenegro in 1941

Summary/Abstract: Based on unpublished and until now mostly unknown documents of the Soviet diplomatic services and central organs of the Comintern, as well as existing historiography and memoir literature, this paper analyzes the Soviet view of the consequences of the Yugoslav military collapse during the April War, the character of the division of Yugoslav territory with special reference to the territory of Montenegro, the establishment of the occupation system and preparations for the organization of armed resistance. The paper contains an overview of various Soviet activities in terms of preserving and expanding its intelligence network and organizing armed de- tachments intended for guerrilla warfare. It points to the dual nature of Soviet actions through military-diplomatic and intelligence organs that acted in cooperation with official state organs, civic political groups and Comintern organs that exerted their influence through the extensive illegal network of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.Based on unpublished and until now mostly unknown documents of the Soviet diplomatic services and central organs of the Co- mintern, as well as existing historiography and memoir literature, this paper analyzes the Soviet view of the consequences of the Yugoslav military col- lapse during the April War, the character of the division of Yugoslav territo- ry with special reference to the territory of Montenegro, the establishment of the occupation system and preparations for the organization of armed resistance. The paper contains an overview of various Soviet activities in terms of preserving and expanding its intelligence network and organizing armed de- tachments intended for guerrilla warfare. It points to the dual nature of Soviet actions through military-diplomatic and intelligence organs that acted in cooperation with official state organs, civic political groups and Comintern organs that exerted their influence through the extensive illegal network of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

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