Review article
Tito and the Founding of the Communist Party of Croatia
Ivan Jelić
Abstract
This article contains an account of certain basic features of the activity of Josip Broz Tito in the founding of the Communist Party of Croatia in the year 1937.
In considering the founding of the national communist parties in the year 1937 (CP of Slovenia and the CP of Croatia) it is necessary, in the first place, to begin with one important fact. These significant events in the history of the Yugoslavian communist movement were closely connected with that decisive moment in the history of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ), which came about with the return of Tito in the late autumn of 1936, when he assumed within the new leadership, the role of directing the movement in the whole country.
Consequently, the founding of the national communist parties can be seen as one of the features of that deep process of transformation of KPJ, begun by Tito on his return to the country. It is that process which reveals itself as the way to the creation of a modern proletarian party. Tito left his own deep and decisive personal mark on that process, for which the results, achieved by a communist movement built up under his direction, offer the best confirmation.
Tito's role in the founding of the Communist Party of Croatia can be traced from the mere idea of national communist parties 1934. The main point is that Tito was directly and actively present in all the actions, from planning to execution, which were undertaken with the aim of realizing that idea.
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219040
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Publication date:
9.11.1977.
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