Национална политика Комунистичке партије Југославије 1935–1937: Формирање комунистичких партија Словеније и Хрватске
National Policy of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia 1935–1937: Formation of the Communist Party of Slovenia and Croatia

Summary/Abstract: After 1935, the Communist party of Yugoslavia began its popular front phase in which it would according to directives received from Moscow shed it old hardcore phraseology, the secret party cells activity, deep conspiratorial nature of its activity and sectarian dogmatism. The party leadership decided in 1934, in an attempt to get closer to the „masses”, to form national communist parties in Slovenia, Croatia and in the nearest future in Macedonia which would operate within the CPY organization. The focus of CPY activity was directed at a greater engagement of local, national cadre, popularizing the Party among the „oppressed peoples” and putting an end to „national reformism”. It specially underscored that the international character and organizational unity of the CPY will not be weakened by this decision, because the CP of Croatia and CP of Slovenia will be integral parts of the CP of Yugoslavia. This idea was realized in 1937 when the Central Committee of CP Slovenia and Central Committee of the CP of Croatia were formed. The Macedonian Communist Party was not formed due to the weak party organization in that province. The leadership of the CPY did not consider the formation of the Montenegrin and Bosnian and Herzegovinian communist parties, while the „Serbian question” was thought to have been surpassed and finally resolved. Apart from uniting and strengthening the party structure in the western parts of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the formation of the communist parties of Slovenia and Croatia set the boundaries of the Slovenian and Croatian „national territory”. Recomposing the CPY according to the „national boundaries” in the second half of the thirties was used as the starting point for the project of federalizing the country as was proclaimed during the Second World War.

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