Ismail
22nd July 2012, 10:20
A few months ago RevLeft user Ghost Bebel scanned this 1986 Albanian work, and I've decided to upload it to a website for anyone to read. In it the author (Luan Omari) discusses a number of issues, primarily those relating to how the new state power was established in the 1942-1944 period through the local National Liberation Councils in opposition to the quisling government set up first by the Italian and later Nazi German occupiers. From these local councils sprang the basis of a national government after liberation. He discusses their role, legal competences and development.
In addition to this the work discusses the character of the revolution, disputing primarily the views of the Soviet revisionists on the nature of People's Democracy, the question of smashing the bourgeois state apparatus, etc.
The pages up to 165 comprise the main part of the book. The rest are documents.
Considering the paucity of online sources about Albanian history, and also the fact that only Albania and Yugoslavia had partisan movements with governments which didn't come to power on the back of Soviet tanks,* I figure there is interest in this sort of work.
Download link (file is in PDF format): http://www.sendspace.com/file/osjux0
* Although Soviet and Bulgarian troops played a notable role in liberating Belgrade and Kosovo, and there was a brief coalition government in Yugoslavia after the war whereas there was none in Albania and no Soviet troops assisted in its liberation.
In addition to this the work discusses the character of the revolution, disputing primarily the views of the Soviet revisionists on the nature of People's Democracy, the question of smashing the bourgeois state apparatus, etc.
The pages up to 165 comprise the main part of the book. The rest are documents.
Considering the paucity of online sources about Albanian history, and also the fact that only Albania and Yugoslavia had partisan movements with governments which didn't come to power on the back of Soviet tanks,* I figure there is interest in this sort of work.
Download link (file is in PDF format): http://www.sendspace.com/file/osjux0
* Although Soviet and Bulgarian troops played a notable role in liberating Belgrade and Kosovo, and there was a brief coalition government in Yugoslavia after the war whereas there was none in Albania and no Soviet troops assisted in its liberation.