KULTURNO-PROSVETNI RAD U JEDINICAMA 6. SLAVONSKOG UDARNOG KORPUSA NOV JUGOSLAVIJE
CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE 6TH SLAVONIAN CORPS OF THE YUGOSLAV ARMY OF LIBERATION

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the cultural and educational work conducted in the partisan units during World War II, aimed at spreading and improving literacy among its fighters. Efforts at spreading literacy began at the same time as the war of national liberation and lasted until its end. This work was guided by the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia and accomplished through the cultural and educational committees within the fighting units. These efforts gave outstanding results, which were more due to the participants’ enthusiasm than to the teaching staff, lecture rooms or books, all of which were extremely scarce. Wall posters, pocket edition newspapers and partisan publications were used as additional tools in teaching. The article provides statistical information about the population’s literacy on the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia according to regions. The figures vary from region to region in consequence of the diversity in the development of education in Yugoslavia between the two world wars. The significance of the work done on spreading literacy and education among the partisan units and on liberated territories between 1941 and 1945 was manifold, especially in respect to the ensuing social and political changes brought about by the Yugoslav revolution.

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