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
Josip Broz Tito
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Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980. He
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
…one-party state, which existed in that form of government until 1990, a year prior to the start of the Yugoslav Wars and breakup of Yugoslavia. Led by Josip Broz Tito from 1937 to 1980, it was the first communist party in power to defy the Soviet hegemony in the Eastern Bloc and thus was expelled from the Cominform…
Official portrait, 1961
Tito's birthplace in the village of Kumrovec, Croatia
The Sviyazhsk Assumption Monastery, where Tito recuperated from his wounds
The assassination of the Minister of the Interior, Milorad Drašković, led to the outlawing of the Communist Party.