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Rastko Lompar, PhD
In­sti­tu­te for Bal­kan Stu­di­es SASA, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

 

THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE YUGOSLAV ANTI-MARXIST COMMITTEE IN 1935

Vol. XLIV, 1/2026, pp. 33–50
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2026.1.lom.33-50

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

Af­ter the King­dom of Yugo­sla­via was cre­a­ted in 1918, its go­vern­ment and mo­narch so­on co­me in­to con­flict with the newly esta­blis­hed Com­mu­nist Party of Yugoslavia over the fu­tu­re of the sta­te. The Com­mu­nist party was ou­tlawed in 1920 and remained il­le­gal thro­ug­ho­ut the exis­ten­ce of the in­terwar Yugo­slav sta­te. De­spi­te the fact that the suc­ces­si­ve ru­ling re­gi­mes re­ma­i­ned pro­fo­undly an­ti-­com­mu­nist, the­re was ne­ver a meaning­ful ini­ti­a­ti­ve to esta­blish an an­ti­-com­mu­nist pres­su­re gro­up, whet­her pri­va­te or covertly sta­te-run. At the sa­me ti­me, in­ter­na­ti­o­nal an­ti-com­mu­nist or­ga­ni­sa­ti­ons – most no­tably the Ge­ne­va-ba­sed In­ter­na­ti­o­nal An­ti­-com­mu­nist En­ten­te and the Ber­lin-ba­sed An­ti­ko­min­tern – so­ught to se­cu­re a fo­ot­hold wit­hin Yugo­sla­via. Af­ter years of re­la­ti­ve ne­glect, the newly elec­ted go­vern­ment of Mi­lan Sto­ja­di­no­vić and Prin­ce re­gent Pa­vle, be­gan to explo­re the possibi­li­ti­es of de­ve­lo­ping a mo­re me­a­ning­ful and syste­ma­tic an­ti-com­mu­nist pro­pa­gan­da effort. This shift co­in­ci­ded with the in­cre­a­se in ac­ti­vity by fo­re­ign an­ti-­com­mu­nist organisations. As a re­sult, pro­pa­gan­da ef­forts in­ten­si­fi­ed, and fol­lowing a se­ri­es to pri­va­te meetings, a newly for­med or­ga­ni­sa­ti­on emer­ged: the Yugo­slav An­ti-Marxist Com­mit­tee. Its esta­blish­ment was the out­co­me of con­ver­gen­ce of exter­nal and in­ter­nal fac­tors – in­ter­na­ti­o­nal sup­port and do­me­stic po­li­ti­cal ini­ti­a­ti­ves.

 

KEYWORDS: an­ti­-com­mu­nism, Yugo­slav An­ti-Marxist Com­mit­tee, An­ti­ko­min­tern, Au­bert Le­a­gue, In­ter­na­ti­o­nal An­ti-­com­mu­nist En­ten­te

 

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