ABSTRACT
Perhaps reassured of socialism's inevitable victory after rereading the Marxist classics, Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) leaders sought to replace the Soviet-inspired voluntaristic methods of achieving cultural change with a more deterministic, hands-off approach. The resolutions from that meeting repeated all of the concrete directives of the CPY's Third Plenum, but barely mentioned its ideological, attitudinal aspect. CPY leaders' increased willingness to trust not only party cadres but Yugoslavia's citizens may be seen in a further and crucial reform of the press and other periodical publications in 1950. The high point of the party's reform policies came at the Sixth Congress of the CPY, renamed the LCY, and held November 2-7, 1952, and at the Fourth Congress of the People's Front in late February 1953. The party's broadened ideological perspective was evident mainly among top leaders of the CPY, whose discussions of Marxism-Leninism became increasingly adventurous.
