Socialist Republic of Serbia

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Socialist Republic of Serbia
Социјалистичка Република Србија
Socijalistička Republika Srbija
A federal unit of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
← Image:Flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (civil).svg
 1943 — 1992 Image:Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg →
Image:Flag of SR Serbia.svg Image:SR Serbia coa.png
Flag Coat of arms
Image:SFRY Serbia.png
CapitalBelgrade
Official languageSerbo-Croatian (Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn co-official in SAP Vojvodina; Albanian co-official in SAP Kosovo)
Established
In the SFRY:
 - Since
 - Until 		1943

January 31, 1946
April 27, 1992
Area
 - Total
 - Water 		Ranked 1st in the SFRY
88,361 km²
0.13%
Population
 - Total 
 - Density 		Ranked 1st in the SFRY
9,506,174
114.0/km²
CurrencyYugoslav dinar (динар, dinar)
Time zone UTC + 1

Socialist Republic of Serbia (Serbo-Croatian: Социјалистичка Република Србија, Socijalistička Republika Srbija) was a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Its capital was Belgrade.

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[edit] History

From 1945 to 1963, the republic was officially known as People's Republic of Serbia (Narodna Republika Srbija), and from 1963 to 1990 as Socialist Republic of Serbia (Socijalistička Republika Srbija). The republic was controversially internally divided in 1974 to include two autonomous provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo 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 Milošević who supported Serbian nationalists in Kosovo in removing Kosovo's autonomy. In 1989, Milošević 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 voted to Serbs, precipitated ethnic tensions and the collapse League of Communists of Yugoslavia and of Yugoslavia itself by 1991. After 1990, the state known simply as Republic of Serbia (Republika Srbija) which was a constituent republic in the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, then Serbia and Montenegro until 2006 when Serbia became an independent state.

[edit] Administrative divisions

Within Socialist Republic of Serbia two autonomous provinces existed: Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo. Central part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia located outside of the two autonomous provinces was generally known as "Serbia proper" ("Uža Srbija").

[edit] Demographics

[edit] 1971 census

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

[edit] 1981 census

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

Image:Coat of arms of Serbia small.svg

This article is part of the series on the
History of Serbia

Medieval Serbia
Raška, Zeta
Serbian Empire
Moravian Serbia
Battle of Kosovo
Serbian Despotate
Ottoman Serbia
Habsburg Serbia
First Serbian Uprising
Second Serbian Uprising
Modern Serbia
Principality of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbia
Serbian Campaign (World War I)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Serbia (1941-1944)
Republic of Užice
Socialist Republic of Serbia
(as part of SFR Yugoslavia)
FR Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro
Republic of Serbia
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[edit] Politics

The only political party in the republic was League of Communists of Serbia (Savez komunista Srbije), which was part of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije). The party remained relatively stable 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 and the more radical and nationalist-leaning members supported Slobodan Milosevic. 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. 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.

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 attempted to silence opposition from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia 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 in and then the state of Yugoslavia itself one year later.

[edit] Heads of Institutions

[edit] Chairman of ASNOS (1944 - 1945)

[edit] Presidents

[edit] Prime Ministers

[edit] See also

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Socialist republics and socialist autonomous provinces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Croatia · Macedonia · Montenegro · Serbia (Kosovo · Vojvodina) · Slovenia
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