Back Svaz komunistů Srbska Czech Bund der Kommunisten Serbiens German Ένωση Κομμουνιστών της Σερβίας Greek Liga de los Comunistas de Serbia Spanish اتحادیه کمونیستهای صربستان Persian Ligue des communistes de Serbie French Liga Komunis Serbia ID Lega dei Comunisti di Serbia Italian 세르비아 공산주의자 동맹 Korean Servische Communistenbond Dutch
League of Communists of Serbia Савез комуниста Србије Savez komunista Srbije | |
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| Abbreviation | KPS (until 1952) SKS (after 1952) |
| Secretary/President | See list |
| Founded | 8 May 1945 |
| Dissolved | 17 July 1990 |
| Preceded by | Provincial Committee for Serbia |
| Succeeded by | Socialist Party of Serbia |
| Headquarters | Ušće Tower, Belgrade |
| Youth wing | League of Socialist Youth of Serbia |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Titoism |
| National affiliation | League of Communists of Yugoslavia[a] |
| Colours | Red |
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The League of Communists of Serbia (Serbian: Савез комуниста Србије, romanized: Savez komunista Srbije, abbr. SKS), known as the Communist Party of Serbia (Serbian: Комунистичка партија Србије, romanized: Komunistička partija Srbije, abbr. KPS) until 1952, was the ruling political party of Serbia from 1945 to 1990. It was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Under a new constitution ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to the various republic-level branches. In 1987, the party was taken over by the populist faction led by Slobodan Milošević. 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 and led to the Yugoslav Wars. During the early 1990s, the growing ethnic tensions between the republics of Yugoslavia led to the break-up of the federal party.
On 17 July 1990, it merged with several smaller parties to form the Socialist Party of Serbia.[2]
During its existence the League of Communists of Kosovo and the League of Communists of Vojvodina were associated with it as "integral parts."[3]
- ^ Biondich, Mark (2011). The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence Since 1878. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780199299058. OCLC 718575569.
- ^ Yugoslavia The Old Demons Arise, TIME Magazine, 6 August 1990
- ^ 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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