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The Communist Party and Celebrations of the Victory Day (9 May) in Yugoslavia 1945–1955

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Bondžić D.

Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość

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2019

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issue 33

345-355

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T he article deals with meaning of celebrations of 9 May – Victory Day – in Yugoslavia in the first few years after World War II and with the role of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in organising these ceremonies. It is shown that this holiday was one of the cornerstones of the Communist regime propaganda and a very important occasion for creating the tradition of national liberation struggle and anti-fascism. The main role of Victory Day was to recall the victory over fascism, but also to contribute to consoli- dation of Communists’ rule and to display foreign and inner policy of the new autho- rities in Yugoslavia. The ruling party used the entire content of the celebrations to cre - ate and impose its own image of World War II and the national liberation struggle in Yugoslavia and to present the desirable image of the current international and internal political situation. These celebrations were conceived and designed by the top officers of the Communist Party, in its Agitprop apparatus, and all activities and details were dictated by Party guidelines and directives.

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From stalinism to “heresy”. The evolution of the political thought of Milovan Ðjilas, 1941-1949

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Zacharias M. J.

Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

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2012

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vol. 47

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Knowledge of communism, so carefully presented in the best and the most famous work of Milovan Ðilas entitled The New Class. An Analysis of the Communist System, New York, 1957, undoubtedly resulted from his previous political practice and theoretical reflections. In the years 1941-1949, Ðilas was both a politician and one of the main ideologists and propagandists of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In his later writings, books and speeches, he pointed out that even in time of the war he began to express doubts whether the communistic idea, as he understood at that time, indeed could be fully realized. The above mentioned doubts should be treated hypothetically, we should approach to them with caution. Mostly because they are expressed later after World War II. We do not have a possibility to confirm its veracity on the basis of other sources, documents and messages than those presented in the article. However, the analysis of Ðilas intellectual attitude after the outbreak of the conflict between the Soviet and Yugoslav Communists in 1948, leaves no doubts that slowly and gradually, but irreversibly, Ðilas began to undermine the meaning and the possibility of building „socialism” in line with Stalinist principles. Ðilas propaganda initial admiration of Soviet reality gave way to criticism. Of course, in 1949, so at the end of the period, Ðilas was still a communist. Nevertheless, he inclined to the conviction that Stalinist model becomes a clear deviation from the „true” Marxism. It would be difficult to determine to which extent the conviction was authentic and to which extent - primarily the political consequence, arising from the fact that after the Cominform resolution of June 1948, the Yugoslav Communists, if they did not want to give up the dictatorship of Stalin, had to develop their own ideology and a line of conduct. Anyway, like other leaders of the CPY, Ðilas became a „heretic” rejecting Stalinist orthodoxy. Such „heresy” was the beginning of an attempt to build Yugoslav ideology, orthodoxy. Until the turn of the years 1953/1954 Ðilas would be one of its creators.

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Obraz życia politycznego w Jugosławii w ujęciu polskiej emigracji politycznej w Wielkiej Brytanii – kluczowe zagadnienia (1945–1948)

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Wolsza T.

Dzieje Najnowsze

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2019

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vol. 51

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issue 1

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W artykule czytelnik odnajdzie poglądy emigracyjnych ekspertów z kręgów rządu RP na obczyźnie oraz publicystów i dziennikarzy prasy polskojęzycznej wydawanej na Wyspach Brytyjskich na temat czterech kluczowych wydarzeń politycznych z dziejów Jugosławii w latach 1945–1948: spór o Triest, wybory parlamentarne w 1945 r., dwa procesy pokazowe gen. Dragoljuba (Dražy) Mihailovicia i abpa Alojzije Stepinaca oraz konflikt jugosłowiańsko-sowiecki o dominację na Bałkanach. The article presents opinions of emigration experts from the circles of the Polish government-in-exile as well as journalists and commentators of the Polish-language press published in Great Britain about four momentous political events in the history of Yugoslavia in 1945–1948: (1) Trieste crisis, parliamentary election in 1945, two show trials of Gen. Dragoljub (Draža) Mihailović and archbishop Aloysius Viktor Stepinac, and the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict over domination in the Balkans.

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1 Dzieje Najnowsze

1 Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość

1 Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

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1 Wolsza T.

1 Zacharias M. J.

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The Communist Party and Celebrations of the Victory Day (9 May) in Yugoslavia 1945–1955

From stalinism to “heresy”. The evolution of the political thought of Milovan Ðjilas, 1941-1949

Obraz życia politycznego w Jugosławii w ujęciu polskiej emigracji politycznej w Wielkiej Brytanii – kluczowe zagadnienia (1945–1948)