People's Liberation Committees
인민해방위원회
People's Liberation Committees were local governing bodies established in territories liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans during the Second World War, replacing occupation administration. They organized the food, material, and manpower needed to sustain the war while building the movement's new political order.
In depth
The committees emerged alongside local uprisings and the expansion of liberated territory, providing an administrative base for the People's Liberation War alongside the military organs. The Communist Party of Yugoslavia linked them to a broad national-liberation front, while the 1942 Bihać session and the 1943 second session at Jajce connected local institutions with higher political bodies. Their composition and effective authority varied with local conditions and the military situation, but they were a central form of revolutionary administration linking wartime mobilization to the reorganization of the postwar state.
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Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) (supports that People's committees administered large liberated territories as civilian governments and organized limited arms production)
- Marxists Internet Archive (Colonel Fabijan Trgo, Survey of the People's Liberation War, supports the committees' creation as new government organs to mobilize manpower and material reserves, and their revolutionary-democratic function)
- britannica.com (supports the relationship between AVNOJ and local liberation committees and their administrative role)