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'League of Communists of Yugoslavia' (''Savez komunista Jugoslavije''), before 1952 the 'Communist Party of Yugoslavia' (''Komunistička partija Jugoslavije''), was a major Communist party in Yugoslavia. The party was founded as an opposition party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1919. After initial successes in the elections, it was proscribed by the royal government and remained an illegal underground group until World War II, at times using terrorist tactics. After the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1941, partisans led by Communists became embroiled in a War of National Liberation and defeated the Axis forces and their local satellites in a bloody civil war. After the liberation from foreign occupation in 1945, the party consolidated its power and established a one-party rule in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which lasted until the Yugoslav wars of 1991.
The party, which was led by Josip Broz Tito from 1937 to 1980, was the first communist party in power in the history of communism that openly opposed the common policy as directed by the Soviet Union and thus was expelled from the Cominform in 1948 after Stalin accused Tito of nationalism and moving to the right. After internal purges, the party renamed itself the League of Communists and adopted politics of workers' self-management and independent communism, known as Titoism.
The party disintegrated in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, together with Yugoslavia.

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Founding

Period of legal activity

Split with the Centrists

Ban of the Communist party

Underground organisation

National question and factional strife

The armed revolt of 1929

Reconstruction of the party

Tito's early leadership

Invasion and armed resistance

Ruling party of Socialist Yugoslavia

Dissidents

Crisis and dissolution

Remnants

Party leaders

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Founding

When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created after World War I, the different Social democratic parties that had existed in Austria-Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro called for a unification of their parties. The idea was widely accepted by parties and organizations from all over the country except Slovenia and in April