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Beograd: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2024.
Gužvica S., Tokovi Istorije 2026 No. 1 P. 15–52
The paper analyzes the intellectual climate and political circumstances that shaped and heavily influenced the literary imagination and the semantic horizon of two novels—The Optimists: the Novel of a Revolution by Ervin Sinkó and Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy by Manès Sperber. Besides introductory remarks and conclusion, the paper’s structure is threefold, ...
Added: May 7, 2026
Дёмин Ю. А., Iranian Studies 2026 Vol. 59 No. 1 P. 55–72
The first decade after the end of the revolutionary events in Gilan (1920-21) was a period of active attempts by the Bolsheviks, the Communist International and the Communist Party of Iran to gain a solid social foothold in Iran. Thispaper, based mainly on Russian archival sources, focuses on studying the dynamics of the guidelines of the CommunistInternational and the Communist Party of Iran, the attempts and features of their implementation, as well as on therelationship of the Iranian Communists with the Bolsheviks and the leadership of the Communist International. The studydemonstrates that the main efforts of the Reds in 1922-25 were aimed at building an inter-class coalition, wherecooperation with Reza Khan became only part of these broader efforts. The failures led the Reds to a previously testedcourse of fomenting the agrarian revolution in Iran and repeated fiascos. Throughout this period, the leadership of the Communist Party of Iran was not a simple executor of directives, but took an active part in the decision-making process,involved the Bolsheviks in its internal party struggle and challenged high-ranking functionaries of the Communist International. ...
Added: April 12, 2026
Zagreb: Srpsko kulturno društvo “Prosvjeta”, 2025.
Milan Durman se bavio i perom i akcijom, među živim ljudima, piše Enis Zebić u biografiji hrvatskog Srbina koji je godinama uređivao najznačajniji hrvatski lijevi časopis nakon Krležinih - Književnik. Već kao dvadesetogodišnjak suorganizator je ilegalne komunističke tiskare u Zagrebu, a dvadesetak godina kasnije kao generalni sekretar Seljačkog kola neumorno na terenu zagovara suradnju Srba ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Gužvica S., , in: Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought.: Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2026. P. 127–135.
Albert Hlebec is a paradigmatic representative of a Slovenian independentist current within the Yugoslav communist movement. Given that the Yugoslav socialist state had eventually been formed on a federal basis, the independentist currents within various local sections of the party withered away after the intro-duction of the Popular Front policy in 1935. The Popular Front ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Gužvica S., , in: Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought.: Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2026. P. 105–114.
Godina was a Slovene participant in the October Revolution from Trieste who, upon his return home, become profoundly involved with Amadeo Bordiga's "ultra-left," rejecting parliamentary forms of struggle and the Bolshevik idea of land redistribution as an alternative to socialist collective agriculture in underdeveloped countries. Around 1923-24, he broke with communism completely, although he would ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Gužvica S., , in: Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought.: Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2026. Ch. 2 P. 53–63.
Srebrnič had a biography similar to Godina, being also a participant in the October Revolution and a "Bordigist" active in Triest. However, unlike Godina, he was of a peasant background, and was an active social democrat before 1914, particularly interested in the peasant question. His 1922 theses were prepared for the Second Congress of the ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Grishina D., Аксентьев Д. А., Корееведение 2025 № 4(13) С. 55–66
The article examines the emergence of the Seoul Faction on the Korean Peninsula during the 1920s. The Seoul Faction, also known as the Seoul Group, was one of the major groups within the Korean communist movement. The article analyzes the activities of representatives of the Seoul Faction and their relationships with the Co
mintern and other Korean communist ...
Added: January 11, 2026
Gužvica S., Historical Materialism 2025 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 43–80
This article is a reassessment of the ‘right faction’ in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (kpj) in the 1920s. This group confronted the party leadership and the Comintern over the applicability in Yugoslavia of Leninist self-determination until secession. As such, they had been variously described as either Austro-Marxists or Serbian nationalists. However, the right faction’s ...
Added: December 20, 2025
Beograd: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2024.
The collection contains works that contribute to existing analyzes of the causes, course and consequences of the war in Spain. The peculiarity of the approach is reflected in the choice of Yugoslavs as a paradigmatic group of participants in the war. The anthology complements the previous histories of the war through new research on the ...
Added: December 16, 2024