The Provincial Committee for Serbia ( sr, Покрајински комитет за Србију/Pokrajinski komitet za Srbiju) or Provincial Committee of Serbia (Покрајински комитет Србије/Pokrajinski komitet Srbije), abbreviated PKS/ПКС, was the branch of the

Communist Party of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...

(KPJ) active in Serbia during the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 unt ...

and

German-occupied Serbia The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (german: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; sr, Подручје Војног заповедника у Србији, Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kin ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. It was transformed into the

Communist Party of Serbia , logo = , colorcode = , leader = President of the League of Communists of Serbia , predecessor = Provincial Committee for Serbia of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia , merged = , successor = SPS , ...

in 8 May 1945.

History

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

World War II

On 4 July 1941, the PKS established the

Main Staff of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Serbia The Main Staff of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Serbia was the highest military organ that organized and commanded the units of the Yugoslav Partisans (the "National Liberation Army") on the territory of German-occupie ...

. In 1941, the PKS greatly aided the communists in western Serbia. Communist Party members were sent to areas in need of political activity. The Central Committee for Liberated Territory was established in the short-lived

Republic of Užice The Republic of Užice ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Užička republika, Ужичка република) was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini ...

in western

. The reformed Provincial Committee for Serbia, set up in November 1942, established 12 new county- and district committees.

References

Sources

* *{{cite book, first1=Venceslav , last1=Glišić, first2=Milan , last2=Borković, title=Komunistička partija Jugoslavije u Srbiji 1941-1945: 1941-1942, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePFmAAAAMAAJ, year=1975, publisher=Rad Communism in Serbia Serbia in World War II Defunct organizations based in Serbia 1930s establishments in Serbia 1945 disestablishments in Serbia Yugoslav Serbia Organizations based in Yugoslavia Socialism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia