In his paper presented at the International Scientific Conference held at the University of Milan
from December 11 to 13, 1975, the author discusses the key issues about the strategy and tactics
of the Yugoslav Communist Party and the National Liberation Movement in the struggle for liberation
and the seizure of power. The National War of Liberation was undoubtedly also a socialist
revolution; however, it generally began to be defined as such only after the year 1963, when the
Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed. During the Second World War the
term national revolution was used only exceptionally, the term national war of liberation being
applied as a rule. The author gives a concise survey of the principal phases of the struggle against
the emigrant governments until the constitution of the joint temporary government of the Democratic
Federative Yugoslavia on March 7, 1945.