Komunistična partija Slovenije in revolucionarno gibanje 1941-1943

The Communist Party of Slovenia (CPS), with the attack of the Axis powers upon Yugoslavia in April 1941, entered the political scene as a socially marginal party with less than 1300 members. It was integral to the centrally organized Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY), which was a section of the Comintern. This framework significantly determined the operations and orientations of the CPS, which were coordinated according to the interests of the revolution as well as in accordance with the state interests of the Soviet Union, the only socialist state of the Bolshevik type at the time. Edvard Kardelj and Boris Kidrič were its leading visionaries. Following two decades of operating in the illegal, it was qualified for precisely more of the same with the onset of WWII. This proved particularly significant in that it awaited the war internally already uniform; that is, by then they had already concluded with the process of bolshevization and internal cleansing.