From Political Institutionalization to the Structuring of Resistance: the transfer of knowledge from Yugoslavian to Albanian Communists during the years of the Second World War

This article aims to reconstruct and reflect on the contribution in terms of knowledge given by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Komunistička partija Jugoslavije) to the Albanian Communist Party (Partia Komuniste Shqiptare – PKSh) both in its organization and structuring and in that of the Albanian partisan movement led by it, in a period extending from the eve of the foundation of the PKSh in 1941 to its seizure of power in 1944. In the study of the transfer of this knowledge, importance will also be given to the analysis of the repercussions that this action had on the relations between the two parties. The ultimate objective of this article is to attempt to give the PKSh, and with it the Albanian partisan movement, a transnational dimension, thus breaking it out of the rigidly national framework in which it has been seen and continues to be seen to the present day.