KOMUNISTIČKA PARTIJA JUGOSLAVIJE I PITANJE POLOŽAJA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF YUGOSLAVIA AND THE QUESTION OF THE POSITION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: National and confessional heterigeneity of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the reason why — from the very beginning of the national movements in Yugoslav lands, especially in Serbia nad Chroatia — numerous discussions in periodical press, in political and even in historical circles ensued concerning the national character of this land, and later, its position in Yugoslavia. The views of social democracy concerning the national quesing in 'Yugoslavia — the theory of one Serbo-Croat Slovenian people etc. — were accepced, and in the first years of its activity carried out by Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The problem of full national freedom of individual Yugoslav peoples within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia therefore did not even exist at the beginning of CPY. This accounts for the fact that the question of the position of a multinational Yugoslav land like Bosnia and Herzegovina simply could not arise. This means that the evolution of the Communist Party policy evolved from the utilitarian stadnpoint towards the accomplishment of the solution of the national question based on the principle of full eqality of nations and national minorities within the framework of the Yugoslav federation.

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