, logo = Communist star with golden border and red rims

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President of the League of Communists of Montenegro The President of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Montenegro ( sh, Predsjednik Centralnog komiteta Saveza komunista Crne Gore) was the head of the League of Communists of Montenegro, heading the Central Committee of the Party. ...

, foundation = 1943 , dissolution = 22 June 1991 , successor =

Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro ( cnr, Демократска партија социјалиста Црне Горе, Demokratska partija socijalista Crne Gore, DPS) is a populist political party in Montenegro. A former long-time ...

, headquarters =

Titograd Podgorica (Cyrillic: Подгорица, ; lit. 'under the hill') is the capital and largest city of Montenegro. The city was formerly known as Titograd (Cyrillic: Титоград, ) between 1946 and 1992—in the period that Montenegro forme ...

, SR Montenegro,

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...

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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, a s ...

Marxism-Leninism

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 ...

to far-left , seats1_title = Parliamentary control in 1946 , seats1 = , seats2_title = Parliamentary control in 1990 , seats2 = , flag = League of Communists of Yugoslavia Flag-cyr.svg , footnotes = Montenegrin branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Montenegro ( sh, Savez komunista Crne Gore, SKCG) was the Montenegrin branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of

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

from 1945 to 1990. Under a 1974 SFR Yugoslavia constitution, greater powers were

devolved Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level. It is a form of administrative decentralization. Devolved territories h ...

to the various republic level branches.

History

The league was originally known as the Communist Party of Montenegro ( sh, Komunistička partija Crne Gore, KPCG). In 1952, the Communist Party of Montenegro was renamed the League of Communists of Montenegro in line with the party's name change on the Yugoslav federal level.

Dissolution

During the early 1990s, the

collapse of communism The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, was a revolutionary wave that resulted in the end of most communist states in the world. Sometimes this revolutionary wave is also called the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Natio ...

and growing ethnic tensions between the Yugoslav republics led to the federal party's breakup. On June 22, 1991, the League's Montenegrin branch formally dissolved and its direct successor became the newly created

Democratic Party of Socialists The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro ( cnr, Демократска партија социјалиста Црне Горе, Demokratska partija socijalista Crne Gore, DPS) is a populist political party in Montenegro. A former long-tim ...

(DPS). In essence, the new party continued right where the old one left off, as its entire membership stayed the same. The new party is widely accused of involvement in tobacco smuggling and organized crime

Party leaders

# Blažo Jovanović (May 1943 - 29 June 1963) (b. 1907 - d.1976) #

Đorđije Pajković Đorđije "Đoko" Pajković (25 June 1917, Lužac, Berane, Kingdom of Montenegro – 17 January 1980, Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) was a Yugoslav Montenegrin politician. He was the leader of the League of Communists of Montenegro from Ju ...

(29 June 1963 - 14 December 1968) (b. 1917 - d.1980) #

Veselin Đuranović Veselin Đuranović (; 17 May 1925 – 30 August 1997) was a Yugoslav communist politician. Biography Đuranović was born near Danilovgrad, in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He served as the chairman of the executive ...

(14 December 1968 - 21 March 1977) (b. 1925 - d.1997) # (21 March 1977 - 1 July 1982) (b. 1934) #

Dobroslav Ćulafić Dobroslav "Toro" Ćulafić (17 January 1926 – 3 June 2011) was a Yugoslav politician from Montenegro who served as Secretary of the Interior of SFR Yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989.Singleton, Fred. A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples. Cambridg ...

(1 July 1982 - May 1984) (b. 1926 - d.2011) #

Vidoje Žarković Vidoje Žarković (Plužine, 10 June 1927 – Beograd, 29 September 2000) was a communist politician from Socialist Republic of Montenegro The Socialist Republic of Montenegro ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Crna G ...

(May 1984 - 30 July 1984) (b. 1927 - d.2000) #

Marko Orlandić Marko Orlandić ( cyrl, Марко Орландић; 28 September 1930 – 20 December 2019) was a high-ranking Montenegrin politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) during the 1970s and '80s. He was born in Seoca, Yugos ...

(30 July 1984 - May 1986) (b. 1930 - d.2019) #

Miljan Radović Miljan Radović ( cyrl, Миљан Радовић) is a retired Montenegrin footballer who played as a midfielder. He is well-known for his accurate set pieces that often led to beautiful goals. He is also nicknamed 'The Professor' because of his ...

(May 1986 - 11 January 1989) (b. 1933 - 2015) # Veselin Vukotić (acting; 11 January 1989 - 26 April 1989) (b. 1949) #

Milica Pejanović-Đurišić Milica Pejanović-Đurišić ( Cyrillic: Милица Пејановић-Ђуришић; born 27 April 1959) is a Montenegrin professor and politician who was Minister of Defense from 2012 to 2016. She is the first woman to hold this office. She ...

(26 April 1989 - 28 April 1989) (b. 1959) #

Momir Bulatović Momir Bulatović ( sr-cyr, Момир Булатовић; 21 September 1956 – 30 June 2019) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He was the first President of the Republic of Montenegro from 1990 to 1998, after which he served as the Prim ...

(28 April 1989 - 4 February 1990) (b. 1956 - 2019)

New party

A new League of Communists of Montenegro was founded in 1993. Later that group united with other communist groups to form the ''League of Communists of Yugoslavia - Communists of Montenegro'' which got 2,343 (0.69%) votes in 2006 elections and 1,595 (0.49%) votes in

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. In 2009, this party merged with the 'Yugoslav Communists of Montenegro to form the

Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro ( cnr, italic=yes, Jugoslovenska komunistička partija Crne Gore, JKP CG) is a minor communist political party in Montenegro. The party mostly gathers pensioners, mainly with Titoistic and nostalgic feelin ...

, a non-parliamentary party which managed to obtain 1 seat in the

Plužine Plužine (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Плужине, ) is a town in northwestern Montenegro. In 2011 it has a population of 1,341. Location Town is located near the Piva lake (Pivsko) in the northwestern mountainous region of Montenegro, close to th ...

Municipal Assembly.

References

{{Authority control Communist parties in Montenegro Political parties established in 1943 Political parties disestablished in 1991 Parties of one-party systems Defunct political parties in Montenegro League of Communists of Yugoslavia

History

Dissolution

Party leaders

New party

See also

References