Комунистичка партија Југославије о сељачком и аграрном питању у периоду између два светска рата
Communist party of Yugoslavia regarding peasant and agrarian matter in the period between the two world wars

Summary/Abstract: This overview paper shows how the stance of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) developed until it accepted the Leninist position on the alliance of the proletariat and the peasantry (peasant question), considered by the Comintern to be a truly scientific-socialist stance, and it presents the party’s view on both agrarian reform and peasant ownership of land in general in Yugoslavia in the interwar period (the agrarian question).The primary sources used were CPY sources, limited to the documentation of the party’s central organs (published congress and conference documentation, CC of CPY announcements, articles by party functionaries, brochures and other propaganda material). The paper indicates the key turning points in CPY’s policy on the agrarian and peasant questions and a visible lack of practical results of the party’s activity in rural areas in the observed period. The tactical side of the party’s policy is also shown: in the domain of the peasant question (it expressed solidarity with the poor peasants attempting to attract their political support); in the domain of the agrarian question (CPY tactically omitted to clearly present its agrarian program).

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