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 (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 and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

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 in Yugoslavia, World War II. It was transformed into the League of Communists of Serbia, Communist Party of Serbia 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. In 1941, the PKS greatly aided the communists in western Serbia. Communist Party members were sent to areas in need of political activity. The Main National Liberation Committee for Serbia, Central Committee for Liberated Territory was established in the short-lived Republic of Užice in western

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

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* *{{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