Chairman of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
League of Communists of Yugoslavia Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije (Cyrillic): Савез комуниста Југославије Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија | |
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| Leader |
Josip Broz Tito (most prominent, see full list below) |
| Founded |
1919 Vukovar Congress in 1920 |
| Dissolved | 1990 |
| Succeeded by | |
| Headquarters | Building of Socio-Political Organizations (1965–90), Belgrade |
| Newspaper | Borba |
| Youth wing | |
| Military wing | Partisans (1941–1945) |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism Titoism Anti-fascism Yugoslavism |
| Political position | Left-wing to Far-left |
| International affiliation |
none Comintern until 1943, Cominform until 1948 |
| Colours | Red |
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The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the country's largest communist party, and the ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia. It was founded as an opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1919.
After initial successes in the elections, it was proscribed by the royal government and remained an illegal underground group until World War II; at times, it was harshly and violently suppressed. After the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1941, the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans became embroiled in the Yugoslav People's Liberation War and defeated the Axis forces and their local auxiliaries in a bloody civil war. After the liberation from foreign occupation in 1945, the party consolidated its power and established a single party state in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which existed until the 1990 breakup of Yugoslavia.
The party, which was led by Josip Broz Tito from 1937 to 1980, was the first communist party in power in the history of the Eastern Bloc that openly opposed the Soviet Union and thus was expelled from the Cominform in 1948 after the Tito-Stalin split. After internal purges of pro-Soviet members, the party renamed itself the League of Communists and adopted the politics of workers' self-management and independent communism, known as Titoism.
When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created after World War I, the different social democratic parties that had existed in Austria-Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro called for a unification of their parties. The idea was widely accepted by parties and organizations from all over the country and in April 1919 a Congress of Unification was held in Belgrade, attended by 432 delegates representing 130,000 organized supporters of the workers’ class movement from all parts of the Kingdom except Slovenia. The ministerial branch of the Social democrat party of Slovenia was minorized in April 1920, when the Slovenes joined ranks with other social-democrats turned Marxist–Leninist revolutionaries. Slovenes joined officially at the Second Congress, held in Vukovar in late April 1920.
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