Kako je Slobodan Milošević izabran za vođu srpskih komunista (II)
How Slobodan Milošević Got Elected for the Leader of Serbian Communists (II)

Summary/Abstract: Formal election of Slobodan Milošević for the president of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia was conducted on the Tenth Congress of the Party, held from 26th until 28th of May 1986. The elections were accompanied by the great division in the League. Milošević was elected for the post of prevailing political power with the decisive aid of Ivan Stambolić. Although the general public perceived Milošević as a liberal communist prone to discontinue the dogmatic policies of his predecessors, only a year after a conflict between him and Ivan Stambolić erupted, as a consequence of Milošević’s desire to grasp the absolute power. Milošević’s election for the leader of Serbian communists deepened the crisis of the Yugoslav state and prompted its resolution in the sequence of bloody civil wars, in which Milošević’s historical role was especially negative.

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