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Socialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state
Socialist state

The term socialist state can carry one of several different meanings:*Strictly speaking, any real or hypothetical state organized along the principles of socialism may be called a socialist state....
 that was a constituent country
Constituent country

A constituent country is a country that is part of a larger entity, such as a sovereign state or Supranationalism body....
 of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in Slovene language: Socialisticna Federativna Republika Jugoslavija The Slovene language name also uses this Gaj?s Latin alphabet version with a slight difference in spelling....
. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav
Yugoslav

Yugoslav refers to:* Yugoslavia** Kingdom of Yugoslavia** Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia** Federal Republic of Yugoslavia* Yugoslavs ...
 federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
 and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav republics, and it housed the greatest concentration of economical and political development in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in Slovene language: Socialisticna Federativna Republika Jugoslavija The Slovene language name also uses this Gaj?s Latin alphabet version with a slight difference in spelling....
 as its capital Belgrade
Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
 was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.

1945 to 1963, the republic was officially known as People's Republic of Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
 (Narodna Republika Srbija), and from 1963 to 1990 as Socialist Republic of Serbia (Socijalisticka Republika Srbija).






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Socialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state
Socialist state

The term socialist state can carry one of several different meanings:*Strictly speaking, any real or hypothetical state organized along the principles of socialism may be called a socialist state....
 that was a constituent country
Constituent country

A constituent country is a country that is part of a larger entity, such as a sovereign state or Supranationalism body....
 of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in Slovene language: Socialisticna Federativna Republika Jugoslavija The Slovene language name also uses this Gaj?s Latin alphabet version with a slight difference in spelling....
. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav
Yugoslav

Yugoslav refers to:* Yugoslavia** Kingdom of Yugoslavia** Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia** Federal Republic of Yugoslavia* Yugoslavs ...
 federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
 and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav republics, and it housed the greatest concentration of economical and political development in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in Slovene language: Socialisticna Federativna Republika Jugoslavija The Slovene language name also uses this Gaj?s Latin alphabet version with a slight difference in spelling....
 as its capital Belgrade
Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
 was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.

History

From 1945 to 1963, the republic was officially known as People's Republic of Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
 (Narodna Republika Srbija), and from 1963 to 1990 as Socialist Republic of Serbia (Socijalisticka Republika Srbija). The republic was controversially internally divided in 1974 to include two autonomous provinces, Vojvodina
Vojvodina

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
 and Kosovo
Kosovo

Kosovo is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo . Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija that was re-created by Slobodan M...
 which had the same rights and privileges as constituent republics of Yugoslavia.

For most of its existence in the SFRY, Serbia was loyal and generally subordinate to the federal government. This changed after the death of Tito in 1980 and the rise of Albanian as well as Serbian nationalism in Kosovo, which resulted in a split in the League of Communists on how to respond. A successful round of coups in the Communist party leadership of Serbia as well as Montenegro occurred from 1988 to 1989, led by Slobodan Miloševic
Slobodan Miloševic

Slobodan Milo?evic, whose last/family name sometimes is transliteration as Miloshevich was President of Serbia and of President of Yugoslavia....
 who supported Serbian nationalists in Kosovo in removing Kosovo's autonomy.

In 1989, Miloševic became President of the republic and demanded that the federal Yugoslav government act for the interests of Serbia in Kosovo by sending in the Yugoslav Peoples Army to take control of the province. Opposition to such action and the demands by Serbia for a "one-member, one-vote" system in the Yugoslav League of Communists, which would have given a majority of votes to Serbs, precipitated ethnic tensions and the collapse of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and of Yugoslavia itself by 1991.

After 1990, the state was known simply as Republic of Serbia (Republika Srbija) which was a constituent republic in the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or FRY was a federal state consisting of the republics of Republic of Serbia and Republic of Montenegro from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , created after the other four republics broke away from Yugoslavia amid rising ethnic tensions....
, then as Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro

The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro , was a Political union of Serbia and Montenegro, which existed between 2003 and 2006. The two republics, both of which are former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, initially formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992....
 until 2006 when Serbia became an independent state.

Administrative divisions

Within Socialist Republic of Serbia two autonomous provinces existed: Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina , also known shortly as SAP Vojvodina , was one of the two socialist autonomous areas of the Socialist Republic of Serbia from 1963 to 1990 and one of the federal units of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1974 to 1990....
 and Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo
Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo

Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo was one of the two socialist autonomous areas of the Socialist Republic of Serbia incorporated into the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1974 until 1990....
. The central part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia located outside of the two autonomous provinces was generally known as "Serbia proper
Central Serbia

Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper or Narrower Serbia , is the region of Serbia that lies outside the autonomous province of Vojvodina and the disputed region of Kosovo....
" ("Uža Srbija").

Demographics


1971 census

In 1971, total population of the Socialist Republic of Serbia numbered 8,446,591 people, including:
  • Serbs
    Serbs

    Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
     = 6,142,071 (72.71%)
  • Albanians
    Albanians

    The Albanian people , from southeast Europe, live in Albania and neighbouring countries and speak the Albanian language. About half of Albanians live in Albania, with other large groups residing in Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro....
     = 984,761 (11.66%)
  • Hungarians = 430,314 (5.10%)
  • Croats
    Croats

    Croats are a South Slavs nation mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 5 million Croats living in the southern Central Europe region, along the east bank of the Adriatic Sea and an estimated 9 million throughout the world....
     = 184,913 (2.19%)
  • Muslims
    Muslims by nationality

    Muslims by nationality was a term used in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as an official designation of nationality of Slavic Muslims....
     = 154,330 (1.83%)
  • Yugoslavs
    Yugoslavs

    Yugoslavs is a national designation used by some people across the former Yugoslavia and by some of its diasporans, which continues to be used in some of its successor countries....
     = 123,824 (1.47%)
  • Slovaks
    Slovaks

    File:Pribina, Nitra .jpgFile:J?no??k.jpgFile:Slovak USC2000 PHS.svgFile:Madonna in the Slovak national museum.jpgFile:Slovak soldiers on parade, detail.jpg...
     = 76,733
  • Romanians
    Romanians

    ], 26 Nov 2004. Reprinted at , retrieved 18 Dec 2005.External links *...
     = 57,419
  • Bulgarians
    Bulgarians

    The Bulgarians are a South Slavs people generally associated with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Emigration has resulted in Bulgarian minorities or immigrant communities in a number of other countries....
     = 53,800
  • Roma
    Roma people

    The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...
     = 49,894
  • Macedonians
    Macedonians (ethnic group)

    The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs are a South Slavs people who are primarily associated with the Republic of Macedonia....
     = 42,675
  • Rusyns
    Pannonian Rusyns

    Rusyns in Pannonia, or simply Rusyns or Ruthenians , are a Slavic minority in Serbia and Croatia. They are officially considered a separate nationality in Serbia and Croatia, but are also considered to be a part of the northern Rusyns who live mostly in Ukraine, but also in Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, and Hunga...
     = 20,608
  • Turks
    Turkish people

    The Turkish people , also known as "Turks" are defined mainly as citizens of the Republic of Turkey. An early history text provided the definition of being a Turk as "any individual within the Republic of Turkey, whatever his faith who speaks Turkish, grows up with Turkish culture and adopts the Turkish ideal is a Turk." This ideal...
     = 18,220
  • Slovenes = 15,957
  • Vlachs = 14,724


1981 census

In 1981, total population of the Socialist Republic of Serbia numbered 9,313,677 people, including:
  • Serbs
    Serbs

    Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
     = 6,331,527 (67.96%)
  • Albanians
    Albanians

    The Albanian people , from southeast Europe, live in Albania and neighbouring countries and speak the Albanian language. About half of Albanians live in Albania, with other large groups residing in Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro....
     = 1,303,032 (13.99%)
  • Yugoslavs
    Yugoslavs

    Yugoslavs is a national designation used by some people across the former Yugoslavia and by some of its diasporans, which continues to be used in some of its successor countries....
     = 441,941 (4.75%)
  • Hungarians = 390,468 (4.19%)
  • Muslims
    Muslims by nationality

    Muslims by nationality was a term used in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as an official designation of nationality of Slavic Muslims....
     = 215,166 (2.31%)
  • Croats
    Croats

    Croats are a South Slavs nation mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 5 million Croats living in the southern Central Europe region, along the east bank of the Adriatic Sea and an estimated 9 million throughout the world....
     = 149,368 (1.60%)
  • Roma
    Roma people

    The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...
     = 110,956 (1.19%)
  • Macedonians
    Macedonians (ethnic group)

    The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs are a South Slavs people who are primarily associated with the Republic of Macedonia....
     = 48,986
  • Slovenes = 12,006


Politics

In the Socialist Republic, the only legal political party was the League of Communists of Serbia
League of Communists of Serbia

The League of Communists of Serbia was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990....
 (Savez komunista Srbije), which was part of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia , was a major Communist party in Yugoslavia. The party was founded as an opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1919....
. The party remained relatively stable and loyal to the federal party until the late 1980s, when the party became split over what action to take in Kosovo when protests and fights broke out between ethnic Albanians and Serbs.

The more traditional Communists supported President Ivan Stambolic
Ivan Stambolic

Ivan Stambolic was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination....
 advocated continued neutrality as a means to solve the dispute while more radical and nationalist-leaning members supported Slobodan Milosevic advocated the protection of Kosovo's Serbs who had claimed that their population was being pressured to leave Kosovo by Albanian separatists. Milosevic utilized public sentiment and opposition to Kosovo separatism to rally large numbers of supporters to help him overthrow the Communist leadership in Vojvodina, Kosovo and the Socialist Republic of Montenegro in what was known as the anti-bureaucratic revolution
Anti-bureaucratic revolution

Anti-bureaucratic revolution as a term, refers to a series of mass protests against governments of SFRY republics and autonomous provinces during 1988 and 1989, which led to resignation of leaderships of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Montenegro, and capture of power of politicians close to Slobodan Milo?evic....
. Afterwards, the Serbian League of Communists selected Milosevic as their leader. Milosevic took a hard stand on Albanian nationalism in Kosovo and pressured the Yugoslav government to give him emergency powers to deal with Kosovo separatists. Furthermore he reduced the autonomy of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina and installed politicians loyal to him to serve as their representatives.

In the congress of the Yugoslav League of Communists in 1990, Milosevic and his subordinate representatives for Vojvodina, Kosovo and the Socialist Republic of Montenegro
Socialist Republic of Montenegro

Socialist Republic of Montenegro or SR Montenegro in shortened form, was a socialist state that was a constituent country in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
 attempted to silence opposition from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia
Socialist Republic of Slovenia

The Socialist Republic of Slovenia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1963 until 1990 when Slovenia abandoned its Communist infrastructure and became a democratic constituent republic, still within Yugoslavia....
 which opposed the actions taken against Kosovo by blocking all reforms proposed by the Slovene representatives. The tactic failed and Slovenia, along with its ally Croatia, abdicated from the Yugoslav Communist Party. This caused the Yugoslav Communist party to fall apart, and then the state of Yugoslavia itself one year later.

Heads of Institutions


Chairman of ASNOS
ASNOS

The Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People's Liberation of Serbia was formed as the highest governing organ of anti-fascist movement in Serbia and during World War II developed to be bearer of Serbian statehood....
 (1944 - 1945)

  • Siniša Stankovic (12 November 1944 - 7 April 1945)

Presidents

  • President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly (1945 - 1953)
    • Siniša Stankovic (7 April 1945 - March 1953)
  • Presidents of the National Assembly (1953 - 1974)
    • Petar Stambolic
      Petar Stambolic

      Petar Stambolic was a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and President of the Presidency of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 until 1983....
       (December 1953 - April 1957)
    • Jovan Veselinov (April 1957 - 26 June 1963)
    • Dušan Petrovic (26 June 1963 - 6 May 1967)
    • Miloš Minic
      Miloš Minic

      Milo? Minic was a Serbian communism politician.Minic graduated from secondary school in Cacak, then from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law....
       (6 May 1967 - 6 May 1969)
    • Dragoslav Markovic (6 May 1969 - 19 April 1974)
    • Živan Vasiljevic (19 April - 6 May 1974)
  • Presidents of the Presidency (1974 - 1990)
    • Dragoslav Markovic (6 May 1974 - 5 May 1978)
    • Dobrivoje Vidic (5 May 1978 - 5 May 1982)
    • Nikola Ljubicic
      Nikola Ljubicic

      Nikola Ljubicic was the President of the Presidency of Serbia , a member of the Presidency of the SFRY , and the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia ....
       (5 May 1982 - 5 May 1984)
    • Dušan Ckrebic (5 May 1984 - 5 May 1986)
    • Ivan Stambolic
      Ivan Stambolic

      Ivan Stambolic was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination....
       (5 May 1986 - 14 December 1987)
    • Petar Gracanin
      Petar Gracanin

      Petar Gracanin .In July 1941 he joined the Yugoslav partisans. After the formation of 2st Proletarian Brigade, in March 1942, at first he was a member and later the commander of battalion....
       (14 December 1987 - 20 March 1989)
    • Ljubiša Igic (20 March - 8 May 1989) (acting)
    • Slobodan Miloševic
      Slobodan Miloševic

      Slobodan Milo?evic, whose last/family name sometimes is transliteration as Miloshevich was President of Serbia and of President of Yugoslavia....
       (8 May 1989 - 28 September 1990)


Prime Ministers

  • Minister for Serbia in Yugoslav government
    • Jaša Prodanovic (7 March 1945 - 9 April 1945
  • President of the Government
    • Blagoje Neškovic (9 April 1945 - 5 September 1948)
    • Petar Stambolic
      Petar Stambolic

      Petar Stambolic was a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and President of the Presidency of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 until 1983....
       (5 September 1948 - 5 February 1953)
  • President of the Executive Council
    • Petar Stambolic
      Petar Stambolic

      Petar Stambolic was a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and President of the Presidency of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 until 1983....
       (5 February 1953 - 16 December 1953)
    • Jovan Veselinov (16 December 1953 - 6 April 1957)
    • Miloš Minic
      Miloš Minic

      Milo? Minic was a Serbian communism politician.Minic graduated from secondary school in Cacak, then from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law....
       (6 April 1957 - 9 June 1962)
    • Slobodan Penezic Krcun (9 June 1962 - 6 November 1964)
    • Stevan Doronjski (Acting; 6 November 1964 - 17 November 1964)
    • Dragi Stamenkovic (17 November 1964 - 6 June 1967)
    • Đurica Jojkic (6 June 1967 - 7 May 1969)
    • Milenko Bojanic (7 May 1969 - 6 May 1974)
    • Dušan Ckrebic (6 May 1974 - 6 May 1978)
    • Ivan Stambolic
      Ivan Stambolic

      Ivan Stambolic was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination....
       (6 May 1978 - 5 May 1982)
    • Branislav Ikonic (5 May 1982 - 6 May 1986)
    • Desimir Jevtic (6 May 1986 - 5 December 1989)
    • Stanko Radmilovic (5 December 1989 - 28 September 1990)


See also

  • Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
  • History of Serbia
    History of Serbia

    One of the first Serbian states, Ra?ka , was founded in the first half of the 7th century on Byzantine territory by the Unknown Archont, the founder of the House of Vlastimirovic; it evolved into the Serbian Empire under the House of Nemanjic....
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
    Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

    The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in Slovene language: Socialisticna Federativna Republika Jugoslavija The Slovene language name also uses this Gaj?s Latin alphabet version with a slight difference in spelling....