ABSTRACT
The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) was unquestionably the primary source of cultural and persuasive policies in the new state. The main organs for cultural change within the Communist party were the departments of agitation and propaganda, or agitprop. The primary tasks of agitprop departments were determined in Belgrade most often through informal agreements among top CPY leaders. Attention to the role of youth in the Yugoslav Communist party led to the formation of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, Savez komunisticke omladine Jugoslavije (SKOJ), in October 1919. Indeed, SKOJ members were extremely active in promoting party policy, especially with regard to the struggle against religion and bourgeois concepts in culture. Finally, the state also employed legislative measures in its efforts to erode the bases of Yugoslavia's traditional patriarchal culture. The flagship of the party's mass organizations was the People's Front of Yugoslavia.
