Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

8th Central Committee
8th Central Committee
← 7th 10th →
	Emblem of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
13 December 1964 – 11 March 1969; (4 years, 88 days); Overview
Type	Highest organ
Election	8th Congress
Members
Total	155 members
Newcomers	73 members (8th)
Old	82 members (7th)
Reelected	37 members (10th)

This electoral term of the Central Committee was elected by the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1964, and was in session until the convocation of the 9th Congress in 1969. That congress opted to abolish the Central Committee and replace it with the Conference of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, which existed until 1974 when the 10th Congress re-established the Central Committee.

Convocations

Meetings of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress
Meeting	Date	Length	Ref.
1st Session	13 December 1964	1 day	^[1]
2nd Session	17 June 1965	1 day	^[2]
3rd Session	25–26 February & 11 March 1966	3 days	^[3]
4th Session	1 July 1966	1 day	^[4]
5th Session	4 October 1966	1 day	^[5]
6th Session	10 January 1967	1 day	^[6]
7th Session	1 July 1967	1 day	^[7]
8th Session	23 November 1967	1 day	^[8]
9th Session	16 July 1968	1 day	^[9]
10th Session	23 August 1968	1 day	^[10]
11th Session	2 December 1968	1 day	^[11]
12th Session	5 February 1969	1 day	^[12]

Composition

Members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Name	7th CC	10th CC	Birth	PM	Death	Branch	Nationality	Gender	Ref.
Roman Albreht	New	Elected	1921	1942	2006	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[13]
Nikola Andrić	New	Not	1920	1941	?	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[14]
Risto Antunović	Old	Not	1917	1940	1998	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[15]
Viktor Avbelj	Old	Not	1914	1937	1993	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[16]
Spasenija Babović	Old	Not	1907	1928	1977	Serbia	Serb	Female	^[17]
Tomislav Badovinac	New	Elected	1934	1951	Alive	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[18]
Vladimir Bakarić	Old	Elected	1912	1933	1983	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[19]
Milutin Baltić	New	Elected	1920	1940	2013	Croatia	Serb	Male	^[20]
Marko Belinić	Old	Not	1911	1934	2004	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[21]
Muhamed Berberović	New	Not	1936	1954	?	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Muslim	Male	^[22]
Anka Berus	Old	Not	1903	1934	1991	Croatia	Croat	Female	^[23]
Antun Biber	Old	Not	1910	1939	1995	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[24]
Srećko Bijelić	New	Not	1930	1948	2004	Croatia	Serb	Male	^[25]
Stojan Bjelajac	New	Not	1923	1941	2004	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[24]
Jakov Blažević	Old	Not	1912	1928	1996	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[26]
Jani Bojčevski	New	Not	1930	1947	?	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[24]
Anton Bole	New	Not	1916	1943	1990	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[27]
Ivan Božičević	Old	Not	1909	1934	1999	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[28]
Hasan Brkić	Old	Died	1913	1933	1965	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Muslim	Male	^[28]
Zvonko Brkić	Old	Not	1912	1935	1977	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[23]
Krsto Bulajić	Old	Not	1920	1941	2009	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[28]
Marin Cetinić	New	Not	1915	1936	1996	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[28]
Rodoljub Čolaković	Old	Not	1900	1919	1983	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[29]
Bogdan Crnobrnja	New	Not	1916	1941	1998	Croatia	Serb	Male	^[30]
Krste Crvenkovski	Old	Not	1921	1939	2001	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[30]
Dobroslav Ćulafić	New	Elected	1926	1944	2011	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[31]
Marijan Cvetković	Old	Not	1920	1938	1990	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[32]
Savka Dabčević-Kučar	New	Not	1923	1943	2009	Croatia	Croat	Female	^[33]
Uglješa Danilović	Old	Not	1913	1935	2003	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[34]
Oskar Davičo	New	Not	1909	1939	1989	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[35]
Pavle Davkov	New	Not	1925	1942	1978	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[36]
Ema Derosi	New	Not	1926	1944	2020	Croatia	Croat	Female	^[36]
Veli Deva	New	Elected	1923	1942	2015	Kosovo	Albanian	Male	^[37]
Ivan Dolničar	New	Not	1921	1941	2011	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[38]
Stevan Doronjski	Old	Elected	1919	1939	1981	Vojvodina	Serb	Male	^[39]
Milojko Drulović	New	Not	1923	1941	1989	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[36]
Ratomir Dugonjić	Old	Elected	1916	1937	1987	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[40]
Veselin Đuranović	New	Elected	1925	1944	1997	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[41]
Blažo Đuričić	New	Not	1914	1941	1991	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[42]
Risto Džunov	New	Not	1919	1940	2005	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[42]
Strahil Gigov	Old	Not	1909	1929	1999	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[42]
Kiro Gligorov	New	Elected	1917	1944	2012	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[43]
Ivan Gošnjak	Old	Not	1909	1933	1980	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[44]
Aleksandar Grličkov	New	Elected	1923	1943	1989	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[45]
Kiro Hadživasilev	New	Elected	1921	1943	2000	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[46]
Fadilj Hodža	Old	Elected	1916	1941	2001	Kosovo	Albanian	Male	^[47]
Avdo Humo	Old	Not	1914	1941	1983	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Muslim	Male	^[48]
Vjekoslav Ivančić	New	Not	1924	1944	?	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[49]
Albert Jakopič	Old	Not	1914	1942	1996	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[50]
Đurica Jojkić	Old	Not	1914	1939	1981	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[49]
Blažo Jovanović	Old	Not	1907	1924	1976	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[51]
Niko Jurinčić	Old	Not	1914	1935	1983	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[49]
Ante Jurjević	Old	Elected	1915	1939	2001	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[52]
Osman Karabegović	Old	Not	1911	1932	1996	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Muslim	Male	^[53]
Edvard Kardelj	Old	Elected	1910	1928	1979	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[54]
Stane Kavčič	Old	Not	1909	1941	1987	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[55]
Danilo Kekić	Old	Not	1918	1939	1999	Vojvodina	Serb	Male	^[56]
Rudi Kolak	New	Elected	1918	1941	2004	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Croat	Male	^[57]
Lazar Koliševski	Old	Elected	1914	1935	2000	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[58]
Slavko Komar	Old	Not	1918	1940	2012	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[23]
Pero Kosorić	New	Not	1918	1941	1969	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[59]
Dušanka Kovačević	New	Not	1917	1940	?	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[59]
Veljko Kovačević	New	Not	1912	1938	1994	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[60]
Ivan Krajačić	Old	Not	1906	1934	1986	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[23]
Boris Krajger	Old	Died	1914	1934	1967	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[61]
Sergej Krajger	Old	Not	1914	1934	2001	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[62]
Otmar Kreačić	Old	Not	1913	1937	1992	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[63]
Todo Kurtović	New	Elected	1919	1941	1997	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[64]
Mirko Lacković	New	Not	1923	1943	?	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[63]
Franc Leskošek	Old	Not	1897	1926	1983	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[65]
Nikola Ljubičić	New	Elected	1916	1941	2005	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[66]
Vojin Lukić	New	Not	1919	1941	1997	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[63]
Ivan Maček	Old	Not	1908	1930	1993	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[67]
Boris Majer	New	Not	1919	1944	2010	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[68]
Dragiša Maksimović	New	Not	1917	1941	?	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[69]
Miha Marinko	Old	Not	1900	1923	1983	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[70]
Moma Marković	Old	Elected	1912	1933	1992	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[71]
Velimir Matić	New	Not	1924	1944	?	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[72]
Petar Matić	New	Not	1920	1940	Alive	Vojvodina	Serb	Male	^[73]
Veljko Mićunović	Old	Not	1916	1934	1982	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[72]
Cvijetin Mijatović	Old	Elected	1913	1934	1993	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[74]
Nikola Miljanić	New	Not	1921	1942	1972	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[75]
Dragan Milojević	New	Not	1924	1944	?	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[75]
Slavko Milosavlevski	New	Not	1928	1943	2012	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[76]
Nikola Minčev	Old	Not	1915	1942	1997	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[77]
Milka Minić	Old	Not	1914	1938	2003	Serbia	Serb	Female	^[75]
Miloš Minić	Old	Elected	1915	1936	2000	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[78]
Iko Mirković	New	Not	1918	1938	2002	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[75]
Marija Miškolci	New	Not	1934	1951	?	Vojvodina	Hungarian	Male	^[79]
Lazar Mojsov	Old	Elected	1920	1940	2011	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[80]
Dušan Mugoša	New	Not	1914	1934	1973	Kosovo	Montenegrin	Male	^[81]
Milijan Neoričić	Old	Not	1922	1941	2014	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[82]
Marko Nikezić	Old	Not	1921	1940	1991	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[83]
Marjan Orožen	New	Not	1930	1948	2015	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[84]
Bogdan Osolnik	Old	Not	1920	1942	2019	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[85]
Đorđije Pajković	Old	Not	1917	1936	1980	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[86]
Miroslav Pečujlić	New	Not	1929	1944	2006	Serbia	Croat	Male	^[87]
Dane Petkovski	New	Elected	1922	1943	2005	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[88]
Dušan Petrović	Old	Elected	1914	1935	1977	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[89]
France Popit	New	Elected	1921	1940	2013	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[90]
Krsto Popivoda	Old	Elected	1910	1933	1988	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[91]
Koča Popović	Old	Not	1908	1933	1992	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[92]
Milentije Popović	Old	Not	1913	1939	1971	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[93]
Vladimir Popović	Old	Not	1914	1932	1972	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[94]
Milosav Prelić	New	Not	1933	1951	2003	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[95]
Đuro Pucar	Old	Not	1899	1922	1979	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[96]
Dobrivoje Radosavljević	Old	Not	1915	1933	1984	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[97]
Ilija Rajačić	New	Not	1923	1944	2005	Vojvodina	Serb	Male	^[98]
Aleksandar Ranković	Old	Not	1909	1928	1983	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[96]
Milan Rukavina	New	Not	1926	1943	?	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[99]
Mustafa Šabić	New	Not	1925	1943	?	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[100]
Jefto Šašić	New	Not	1917	1939	1998	Croatia	Serb	Male	^[101]
Đura Savović	New	Not	1928	1945	?	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[99]
Kemal Sejfula	New	Not	1923	1941	1978	Macedonia	Turk	Male	^[99]
Nikola Sekulić	Old	Not	1911	1931	2002	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[99]
Lidija Šentjurc	Old	Not	1911	1932	2000	Slovenia	Slovene	Female	^[100]
Boško Šiljegović	Old	Elected	1915	1940	1990	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[102]
Tankosava Simić	New	Not	1920	1941	Alive	Kosovo	Serb	Male	^[103]
Vajo Skendžić	New	Not	1923	1941	2001	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[103]
Vidoje Smilevski	Old	Not	1915	1940	1979	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[99]
Budislav Šoškić	New	Not	1925	1942	1979	Montenegro	Serb	Male	^[100]
Pal Šoti	Old	Not	1916	1936	1993	Vojvodina	Hungarian	Male	^[104]
Mika Špiljak	Old	Elected	1916	1938	2007	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[105]
Petar Stambolić	Old	Elected	1912	1935	2007	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[106]
Dragi Stamenković	Old	Not	1920	1937	2004	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[107]
Boško Stankovski	New	Not	1925	1943	1987	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[99]
Svetislav Stefanović	Old	Not	1910	1928	1980	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[103]
Velimir Stojnić	Old	Not	1916	1936	1990	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serb	Male	^[101]
Drago Stojović	New	Not	1920	1941	2020	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[108]
Francka Strmole	New	Not	1934	1957	Alive	Slovenia	Slovene	Female	^[101]
Anto Sučić	New	Not	1929	1948	1986	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Muslim	Male	^[109]
Ali Šukrija	New	Elected	1919	1939	2005	Kosovo	Albanian	Male	^[110]
Mihailo Švabić	New	Not	1919	1938	2002	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[111]
Borko Temelkovski	Old	Not	1919	1939	2001	Macedonia	Macedonian	Male	^[111]
Geza Tikvicki	Old	Not	1917	1939	1999	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[111]
Josip Broz Tito	Old	Elected	1892	1920	1980	Not made public	Croat	Male	^[112]
Mijalko Todorović	Old	Not	1913	1938	1999	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[113]
Ljudevit Tomić	New	Not	1928	1947	?	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Muslim	Male	^[111]
Vida Tomšič	Old	Elected	1913	1934	1998	Slovenia	Slovene	Female	^[114]
Mika Tripalo	Old	Not	1926	1943	1995	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[115]
Zagorka Umičević	New	Not	1918	1940	?	Serbia	Serb	Female	^[111]
Norbert Veber	New	Not	1912	1937	1974	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[116]
Andrej Verbić	New	Not	1920	1941	?	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[117]
Jovan Veselinov	Old	Elected	1906	1923	1982	Vojvodina	Serb	Male	^[118]
Dobrivoje Vidić	Old	Elected	1918	1939	1992	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[119]
Janez Vipotnik	Old	Not	1917	1942	1998	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[117]
Perka Vitorović	New	Not	1926	1944	Alive	Serbia	Serb	Female	^[117]
Veljko Vlahović	Old	Elected	1914	1935	1975	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[120]
Vanja Vranjican	New	Not	1920	1939	?	Croatia	Croat	Male	^[117]
Milan Vukasović	New	Not	1920	1942	?	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[117]
Svetozar Vukmanović	Old	Not	1912	1933	2000	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[117]
Simeon Zatezalo	New	Not	1927	1945	?	Serbia	Serb	Male	^[79]
Veljko Zeković	Old	Not	1906	1934	1985	Montenegro	Montenegrin	Male	^[79]
Boris Ziherl	Old	Elected	1910	1930	1976	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[121]
Jože Žohar	New	Not	1927	1947	2005	Slovenia	Slovene	Male	^[122]

Notes

Bibliography

Books

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Hetemi, Atdhe (2020). Student Movements for the Republic of Kosovo: 1968, 1981 and 1997. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-54951-0.
Pirjevec, Jože (2018). Tito and His Comrades. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299317706.
Prifti, Peter R. (1999). Confrontation in Kosova: The Albanian-Serb Struggle, 1969–1999. East European Monographs. ISBN 0-88033-435-5.
Shaffer, Harry G. (1967). "Yugoslavia's "Own Road to Socialism": A Non-Marxist View". In Shaffer, Harry G. (ed.). The Communist World: Marxist and Non-Marxist Views (2nd ed.). Meredith Publishing Company. pp. 223–259. ISBN 9780891970934.
Staff writer, ed. (1965). VIII Kongres Saveza Komunista Jugoslavije Beograd, 7–13. decembra 1964.: stenog̈rafske beleške [VIII Congress of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia Belgrade, 7–13 December 1964: shorthand notes] (in Serbo-Croatian). Vol. 3. Kultura.
Staff writer, ed. (1953). VI kongres Komunističke partije Jugoslavije: 2-7 novembra 1952: stenografske beleške [VI Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia] (in Serbo-Croatian). Kultura.
Staff writer, ed. (1966). Svjetski almanah [World Almanac] (in Serbo-Croatian). Vol. 4. Novinsko izdavačko poduzeće.
Lewytzkyj, Borys; Stroynowski, Juliusz, eds. (1978). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-7940-3017-6.
Rusinow, Dennison (1978). The Yugoslav Experiment 1948–1974. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03730-8.
Stroynowski, Juliusz, ed. (1989a). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: A–H. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-598-10719-6.
Stroynowski, Juliusz, ed. (1989b). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: I–O. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-598-10719-6.
Stroynowski, Juliusz, ed. (1989c). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: P–Z. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-598-10719-6.
Zalar, Charles, ed. (1961). Yugoslav Communism: A Critical Study. United States Government Printing Office. Archived from the original on 11 June 2023.

Journals

Spasenovski, Aleksandar (December 2019). "The Transformation of the Macedonian Party System: From Monism Towards Pluralism". Political Thought. 17 (58). Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Institute for Democracy Societas Civilis: 19–38. Archived from the original on 11 June 2023.

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