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, colorcode = , leader = President of the League of Communists of Serbia , predecessor =

Provincial Committee for Serbia 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), abb ...

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 ...

, merged = , successor =

SPS SPS may refer to: Law and government * Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO * NATO Science for Peace and Security * Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy * The Standard Procurement System, ...

, foundation = 8 May 1945 , dissolution = 17 July 1990 , headquarters =

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 mi ...

SR Serbia , life_span = 1944–1992 , status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia , p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia , flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg , p2 ...

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

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Communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

Marxism–Leninism Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology which was the main communist movement throughout the 20th century. Developed by the Bolsheviks, it was the state ideology of the Soviet Union, its satellite states in the Eastern Bloc, and vario ...

Titoism Titoism is a political philosophy most closely associated with Josip Broz Tito during the Cold War. It is characterized by a broad Yugoslav identity, workers' self-management, a political separation from the Soviet Union, and leadership in th ...

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Left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

far-left Far-left politics, also known as the radical left or the extreme left, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single definition. Some scholars conside ...

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Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also * * * Old Serbian (disambiguation ...

branch of the

League of Communists 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 ...

, flag = League of Communists of Yugoslavia Flag-cyr.svg The League of Communists of Serbia ( sh, Savez komunista Srbije / Савез комуниста Србије, SKS), founded as the Communist Party of Serbia ( sh, Komunistička partija Srbije / Комунистичка партија Србије, KPS) in 1945, was the

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hu ...

n branch of the

, the sole legal party of

from 1945 to 1990. It changed its name from KPS to SKS in 1952. Under a new

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these pr ...

ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic level branches. In the late 1980s, the party was taken over by a faction endorsing

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...

to become leader of the party. Milošević appeased nationalists in Serbia by promising to reduce the level of autonomy within the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. This policy increased ethnic tensions with the other republics and nationalities. During the early 1990s, the growing ethnic tensions between the republics of Yugoslavia led to the breakup of the federal party. On July 27, 1990, it merged with several smaller parties to form the Socialist Party of Serbia. During its existence the League of Communists of Kosovo and the League of Communists of Vojvodina were associated with it as "integral parts."William B Simons & Stephen Write (Ed.). ''The Party Statutes of the Communist World''. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 1984. p. 489.

Party leaders

Blagoje Nešković Blagoje Nešković (11 February 1907, in Kragujevac – 11 November 1984, in Belgrade) was a Yugoslav communist politician and Doctor of Medicine in Spanish Civil War who served as the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Part ...

(1941 – 1948) # Petar Stambolić (1948 – March 1957) # Jovan Veselinov (March 1957 – 4 November 1966) # Dobrivoje Radosavljević (4 November 1966 – February 1968) # Petar Stambolić (February 1968 – November 1968) # Marko Nikezić (November 1968 – 26 October 1972) # Tihomir Vlaškalić (26 October 1972 – May 1982) # Dušan Čkrebić (May 1982 – 17 May 1984) # Ivan Stambolić (17 May 1984 – May 1986) #

(May 1986 – 24 May 1989) # Bogdan Trifunović (24 May 1989 – 16 July 1990)

Congresses

*I. (Founding) Congress – 8–12 May 1945 *II. Congress – 17–21 January 1949 *III. Congress – 26–29 April 1954 *IV. Congress – 4–6 June 1959 *V. Congress – 11–14 May 1965 *VI. Congress – 21–23 November 1968 *VII. Congress – 23–25 April 1974 *VIII. Congress – 29–31 May 1978 *IX. Congress – 1982 *X. Congress – May 1986 *XI. Congress – December 1989 *XII. (Extraordinary) Congress – July 1990

References

{{Authority control Political parties established in 1941 Political parties disestablished in 1990 Parties of one-party systems Communist parties in Serbia Defunct political parties in Serbia League of Communists of Yugoslavia Socialist Party of Serbia Socialist Republic of Serbia