The Serbian Social Democratic Party ( sr, Српска социјалдемократска партија, Srpska socijaldemokratska partija; abbr ССДП or SSDP) was a left-wing political party in

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that was formed in 1903. Prominent leaders included

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, Dragiša Lapčević, and Dušan A. Popović. It ceased to exist after

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with the creation of the

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, when in 1919 the social democrats joined the new Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia (of Communists) (''Socijalistička radnička partija Jugoslavije (komunista)''), the predecessor of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

History

The Serbian Social Democratic Party was founded on 2 August 1903 in

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. The founding congress adopted a program modeled after the

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of the

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.Latinka Perović, O istoriografiji i istoriji levice u Srbiji
/ref> In 1903 a split emerged within the SSDP between the

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, led by Radovan Dragović and

, and the so-called "opportunists", who insisted on the primacy of

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ism over political struggle. In December 1904 the opportunists were expelled from the party. In 1909 and 1910 the Marxist wing struggled against the

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wing. The SSDP participated in the First Balkan Socialist Conference held on 7–9 January 1910 in Belgrade. At the outbreak of

the Social Democratic deputies to the

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refused to vote for war credits. The mobilization and the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the

from October 1915 weakened the SSDP. During the revolutionary upswing that occurred in Serbia under the influence of the

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, the SSDP merged with the Socialist Workers’ Party of Yugoslavia (of Communists) at the latter’s first (Unification) Congress, held in April 1919.

Electoral performance

References

External links

* Foster, Samuel. (2018)
Reviving the Völkerabfälle: The South Slavonic Left, Balkan Federalism and the Creation of the First Yugoslavia
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