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Socialist Republic of Serbia Социјалистичка Република Србија Socijalistička Republika Srbija
A federal unit of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
← 1943 — 1992 →
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Belgrade
Official language	Serbo-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
Currency	Yugoslav 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Administrative divisions 3 Demographics 3.1 1971 census 3.2 1981 census 4 Politics 5 Heads of Institutions 5.1 Chairman of ASNOS (1944 - 1945) 5.2 Presidents 5.3 Prime Ministers 6 See also

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.

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").

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

• Serbs = 6,016,811 (71.23%)
• Albanians = 984,761 (11.66%)
• Hungarians = 430,314 (5.10%)
• Croats = 184,913 (2.19%)
• Muslims = 154,330 (1.83%)
• Montenegrins = 125,260 (1.48%)
• Yugoslavs = 123,824 (1.47%)
• Slovaks = 76,733
• Romanians = 57,419
• Bulgarians = 53,800
• Roma = 49,894
• Macedonians = 42,675
• Rusyns = 20,608
• Turks = 18,220
• Slovenians = 15,957
• Vlachs = 14,724

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

• Serbs = 6,182,159 (66.38%)
• Albanians = 1,303,032 (13.99%)
• Yugoslavs = 441,941 (4.75%)
• Hungarians = 390,468 (4.19%)
• Muslims = 215,166 (2.31%)
• Croats = 149,368 (1.60%)
• Montenegrins = 147,466 (1.58%)
• Roma = 110,956 (1.19%)
• Macedonians = 48,986
• Slovenians = 12,006

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

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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.

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

• President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly (1945 - 1953)
  • Siniša Stanković (7 April 1945 - March 1953)
• Presidents of the National Assembly (1953 - 1974)
  • Petar Stambolić (December 1953 - April 1957)
  • Jovan Veselinov (April 1957 - 26 June 1963)
  • Dušan Petrović (26 June 1963 - 6 May 1967)
  • Miloš Minić (6 May 1967 - 6 May 1969)
  • Dragoslav Marković (6 May 1969 - 19 April 1974)
  • Živan Vasiljević (19 April - 6 May 1974)
• Presidents of the Presidency (1974 - 1991)
  • Dragoslav Marković (6 May 1974 - 5 May 1978)
  • Dobrivoje Vidić (5 May 1978 - 5 May 1982)
  • Nikola Ljubičić (5 May 1982 - 5 May 1984)
  • Dušan Čkrebić (5 May 1984 - 5 May 1986)
  • Ivan Stambolić (5 May 1986 - 14 December 1987)
  • Petar Gračanin (14 December 1987 - 20 March 1989)
  • Ljubiša Igić (20 March - 8 May 1989) (acting)
  • Slobodan Milošević (8 May 1989 - January 1991)

• Minister for Serbia in Yugoslav government
  • Jaša Prodanović (7 March 1945 - 9 April 1945
• President of the Government
  • Blagoje Nešković (9 April 1945 - 5 September 1948)
  • Petar Stambolić (5 September 1948 - 5 February 1953)
• President of the Executive Council
  • Petar Stambolić (5 February 1953 - 16 December 1953)
  • Jovan Veselinov (16 December 1953 - 6 April 1957)
  • Miloš Minić (6 April 1957 - 9 June 1962)
  • Slobodan Penezić Krcun (9 June 1962 - 6 November 1964)
  • Stevan Doronjski (Acting; 6 November 1964 - 17 November 1964)
  • Dragi Stamenković (17 November 1964 - 6 June 1967)
  • Đurica Jojkić (6 June 1967 - 7 May 1969)
  • Milenko Bojanić (7 May 1969 - 6 May 1974)
  • Dušan Čkrebić (6 May 1974 - 6 May 1978)
  • Ivan Stambolić (6 May 1978 - 5 May 1982)
  • Branislav Ikonić (5 May 1982 - 6 May 1986)
  • Desimir Jevtić (6 May 1986 - 5 December 1989)
  • Stanko Radmilović (5 December 1989 - 15 January 1991)

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