The author belives that a comparative study of individual Communist Parties
in the years 1939—1941 would be necessary and attempts to reconstruct,
and analyse the standpoints of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
on the basis of published and archival sources. In distinction from the temperate
views held by Tito at the end of September 1939, Milovan Djilas wrote
and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia approved
of without Tito, the so-called October theses on the international and internal
situation. The theses attacked the Social Democrats as the »agents of British
and French imperialism-«.