ABSTRACT
The first element that hindered party success in achieving its goals by means of persuasion concerned occasional cases of disunity and ambivalence about the party's persuasive strategy at the very top levels of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). While disagreements over policy making at the top undoubtedly inhibited the realization of party goals, a far greater impediment to effective persuasion lay in the gap between policies as dictated at the center and as applied in the field. Meanwhile, the constantly changing educational policies offered teachers ample opportunities to deviate from the party line on the relative cultural and political roles played by various nations and nationalities historically, particularly during the interwar period and Second World War. The youth, low educational level, and relative inexperience of most CPY members were especially evident within the party's agitprop departments. The CPY relied almost entirely on moral persuasion to induce teachers to accept rural employment.
