Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

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Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Социјалистичка Аутономна Покрајина Војводина (Serbo-Croatian) Socijalistička Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina (Serbo-Croatian) Vajdaság Szocialista Autonóm Tartomány (Hungarian)
Autonomous province of Serbia in Yugoslavia
1945–1990
Vojvodina (dark red) in Serbia (red), within Yugoslavia
Capital	Novi Sad
Area
• 1991	21,506 km2 (8,304 sq mi)
Population
• 1991	1,952,533
Government
• Type	Autonomous province
President
Historical era	Cold War
• Provincial status	1 September 1945
• Autonomous Provincial status	1968
• Constitutional reform expanding autonomy	1974
• Constitutional reform reducing autonomy	28 September 1990
Preceded by Succeeded by Banat (1941–1944) Kingdom of Hungary Independent State of Croatia Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

The Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbo-Croatian: Socijalistička Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina / Социјалистичка Аутономна Покрајина Војводина; Hungarian: Vajdaság Szocialista Autonóm Tartomány) was one of two autonomous provinces within the Socialist Republic of Serbia, in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The province is the direct predecessor to the modern-day Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

The province was formally created in 1945 in the aftermath of the World War II in Yugoslavia, as the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina / Аутономна Покрајина Војводина; Hungarian: Vajdaság Autonóm Tartomány). In 1968, it was granted a higher level of political autonomy, and the adjective Socialist was added to its official name. In 1990, after the constitutional reform influenced by what is known as the anti-bureaucratic revolution, its autonomy was reduced to the pre-1968 level, and the term Socialist was dropped from its name. It was encompassing regions of Srem, Banat and Bačka, with capital in Novi Sad.^[1]

Throughout its existence Serbs in Vojvodina constituted the largest ethnic group in the province with a parallel strong affirmation of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural elements central to the province's identity. Alongside Serbian standard of then official Serbo-Croatian, socialist Vojvodina officially used other languages including Hungarian, Pannonian Rusyn, Slovak and Romanian. After the opposition failed to secure any seats in the 1945 elections (followed by the formal introduction of a one-party system), the province was ruled by the League of Communists of Vojvodina, part of both the Serbian and wider Yugoslav ruling party.