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President of the League of Communists of Serbia The Secretary of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia ( sh, Sekretar Centralnog komiteta Saveza komunista Srbije) was the head of the League of Communists of Serbia, heading the Central Committee of the Party. The holder of ...

, predecessor = Provincial Committee for Serbia 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 ...

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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, fo ...

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

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

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=Juhoslavija ...

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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 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 various co ...

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 the ...

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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 consider ...

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Red Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...

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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 language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

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 Legal entity, entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When ...

ratified in 1974, greater power was

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. 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 The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić. It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to t ...

. During its existence the

League of Communists of Kosovo The League of Communists of Kosovo ( sh, Savez komunista Kosova, Савез комуниста Косова, SKK; al, Lidhja Komuniste Kosovare) was the Kosovo branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia f ...

and the

League of Communists of Vojvodina The League of Communists of Vojvodina ( sh, Savez komunista Vojvodine / Савез комуниста Војводине, SKV) was the Vojvodina branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Party leaders #Isa Jovanović (1943) (1906–1983 ...

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 (1941 – 1948) #

Petar Stambolić Petar Stambolić (; 12 July 1912 – 21 September 2007) was a Serbian communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and as President of the Presidency from 1982 until 1983. Biog ...

(1948 – March 1957) #

Jovan Veselinov Jovan Veselinov Žarko (20 January 1906 – 8 February 1982) was a Serbian communist politician. He served as President of Serbia, Prime Minister of Serbia and as a Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was a Partisan fighter in Wor ...

(March 1957 – 4 November 1966) #

Dobrivoje Radosavljević Dobrivoje (Cyrillic script: Добривоје) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. Notable people with the name include: * Dobrivoje Božić (1885–1967), Serbian inventor * Dobrivoje Marković (born 1986), Serbian handballer *Dobrivoje T ...

(4 November 1966 – February 1968) #

(February 1968 – November 1968) #

Marko Nikezić Marko Nikezić (Serbian: Марко Никезић; 13 June 1921 – 6 January 1991) was a Serbian politician. He was a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia and Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was dismissed in 1972 under t ...

(November 1968 – 26 October 1972) #

Tihomir Vlaškalić Tihomir ( Bulgarian, Macedonian and sr, Тихомир) is a South Slavic male given name which means "quiet" and "peace" (South Slavic: ''Tiho'' = quiet, ''mir'' = peace). In Russian however the word “mir” мир also means world. So in Rus ...

(26 October 1972 – May 1982) #

Dušan Čkrebić Dušan Čkrebić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Чкребић; 7 August 1927 – 7 April 2022) was a Serbian politician who served as the Prime Minister, President of the Assembly and President of the Socialist Republic of Serbia. Biography Č ...

(May 1982 – 17 May 1984) #

Ivan Stambolić Ivan Stambolić ( sr, Иван Стамболић; 5 November 1936 – 25 August 2000) was a Serbian politician. He was a prominent member of the League of Communists of Serbia who served as the President of the Presidency of Serbia in the 198 ...

(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

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