League of Communists of Serbia

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League of Communists of Serbia
Savez komunista Srbije
Савез комуниста Србије
LeaderPresident of the League of Communists of Serbia
FoundedMay 1945
Dissolved17 July 1990
Preceded byProvincial Committee for Serbia of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Succeeded bySPS
HeadquartersBelgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Titoism (after 1948)
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
ColoursRed
Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Flag of Serbia within Yugoslavia
Ušće Tower, former headquarters of the League of Communists of Serbia in Belgrade

The League of Communists of Serbia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Srbije / Савез комуниста Србије, SKS), founded as the Communist Party of Serbia (Serbo-Croatian: Komunistička partija Srbije / Комунистичка партија Србије, KPS) in 1945, was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. It changed its name from KPS to SKS in 1952. Under a new constitution 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 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.[1]

During its existence the League of Communists of Kosovo and the League of Communists of Vojvodina were associated with it as "integral parts."[2]

Party leaders[]

Main article: Secretary of the League of Communists of Serbia
  1. Blagoje Nešković (1941 – 1948)
  2. Petar Stambolić (1948 – March 1957)
  3. Jovan Veselinov (March 1957 – 4 November 1966)
  4. (4 November 1966 – February 1968)
  5. Petar Stambolić (February 1968 – November 1968)
  6. Marko Nikezić (November 1968 – 26 October 1972)
  7. (26 October 1972 – May 1982)
  8. Dušan Čkrebić (May 1982 – 17 May 1984)
  9. Ivan Stambolić (17 May 1984 – May 1986)
  10. Slobodan Milošević (May 1986 – 24 May 1989)
  11. (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

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Yugoslavia The Old Demons Arise, TIME Magazine, August 06, 1990
  2. ^ William B Simons & Stephen Write (Ed.). The Party Statutes of the Communist World. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 1984. p. 489.
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