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League of Communists of Yugoslavia: 1: Edvard Kardelj: 1910–1979 15 May 1974 10 February 1979 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: Died in office. 2: Sergej Kraigher: 1914–2001 February 1979 15 May 1984 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: President of the Presidency: 15 May 1981 – 15 May 1982: 3: Stane Dolanc: 1925–1999 15 May 1984 15 ...
The 1974 constitution gave the then 82-year old Tito an unlimited mandate, making him president-for-life. [6] It also created a new rotating office of President of the Presidency which would take effect in the event of Tito's death. The sitting vice president of the Presidency would succeed him in this case.
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 Austria-Hungary ...
The office of the president of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [a] existed from the death of the President of the Republic Josip Broz Tito on 4 May 1980 until the dissolution of the country by 1992. A collective presidency existed in Yugoslavia since amendments to the 1963 Constitution in 1971. [1]
In 1929, the name of the country changed to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Djilas was a radical student activist and opposed the dictatorship of King Alexander I. [5] This brought him to the attention of the police; in March 1932 he was arrested for taking part in an anti-government demonstration and was jailed for eight days as a warning.
[6] [7] Josip Broz Tito was the president of SKJ until his death in 1980. [8] After Tito's death, Yugoslavia was faced with issues related to the economy, constitutional problems, and a potential rise in ethnic nationalism. [9] Yugoslavia initially implemented austerity measures to reduce its debt. [10]
After the war, Tito served as the prime minister (1945–1963), president (1953–1980; from 1974 president for life), and marshal of Yugoslavia, the highest rank of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). In 1945, under his leadership, Yugoslavia became a communist state , which was eventually renamed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .
Slobodan Milošević (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић, pronounced [slobǒdan milǒːʃevitɕ] ⓘ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989–1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000.