The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known from 1920 to 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the founding and ruling party of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was formed i
Election campaign of CPY in 1920
Preserved 1920 local elections slogan Гласајте за Филипа Филиповића ('Vote for Filip Filipović') written on a wall in the Sremska Street in Belgrade. Filipović was elected mayor of Belgrade, but, refusing to pledge the oath to the King, he was not permitted to assume the office.
Police photos of murdered secretaries of the Young Communist League, Janko Mišić and Mijo Oreški, who were killed in a standoff with police on 27 July 1929 in Samobor.
Yugoslav Partisans mobilised by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Filip Filipović (politician)
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Filip Filipović was a Serbian mathematician, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its first secretary. He spent most of his last ten years in the Soviet Union, where he was exe
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
…Furthermore, the party was renamed the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Komunistička partija Jugoslavije, KPJ) to allow its membership in the Comintern. Filip Filipović and Sima Marković, both former SSDP activists, were elected to lead the KPJ. By May 1920, the KPJ had about 50,000 members, and numerous sympathisers…
Filip Filipovic
Members of the leadership and former members of parliament from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in the prison in Požarevac in 1922. Filipović is seated in the middle.