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List of leaders of communist Yugoslavia

King of Yugoslavia
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Details
Style His Majesty
First monarch Peter I
Last monarch Peter II
Formation 1 December 1918
Abolition 29 November 1945
Residence Royal Compound
Appointer Hereditary
Pretender(s) Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
President of Yugoslavia
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Formation 29 December 1945
First holder Ivan Ribar
Final holder Stjepan Mesić
Abolished 5 December 1991
Succession Croatia Franjo Tuđman
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dobrica Ćosić
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1998).svg Alija Izetbegović
Republic of Macedonia Kiro Gligorov
Slovenia Milan Kučan

This is a List of heads of state of Yugoslavia from the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 until the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a monarchy ruled by the House of Karađorđević from 1918 up until World War II. The SFR Yugoslavia was headed first by Ivan Ribar, the President of the Presidency of the People's Assembly (president of the parliament), and then by President Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980, when the a collective federal presidency rotated the presidency among the republic representatives. However, until 1990 the position of General Secretary of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia was usually the most powerful position (the position often coincided with the position of President). With the reforms in 1990, individual republics elected their own heads of state, but the country's head of state continued to rotate among appointed representatives of the republics until the country's dissolution.

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 1 December 1918.


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