Provincial Committee for Serbia

The Provincial Committee for Serbia (Serbian: Покрајински комитет за Србију/Pokrajinski komitet za Srbiju) or Provincial Committee of Serbia (Покрајински комитет Србије/Pokrajinski komitet Srbije), abbreviated PKS/ПКС,[1] was the branch of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) active in Serbia during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and German-occupied Serbia during World War II. It was transformed into the Communist Party of Serbia in May 1945.

History

World War II

On 4 July 1941, the PKS established the Main Staff of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Serbia.

In 1941, the PKS greatly aided the communists in western Serbia.[2] Communist Party members were sent to areas in need of political activity.[2] The Central Committee for Liberated Territory was established in the short-lived Republic of Užice in western German-occupied Serbia. The reformed Provincial Committee for Serbia, set up in November 1942, established 12 new county- and district committees.[3]

References

  1. Glišić & Borković 1975, p. 15.
  2. Dojčilo Mitrović (1975). Zapadna Srbija 1941. Nolit. p. 20.
  3. Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije. Kongres (1949). IV Congress of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. Central Committee of the People's Youth of Yugoslavia.

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