Progressive Party and the People's Party, along with many other political forces from former Austria-Hungary into the pan-Yugoslav State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats (Државотворна странка демократа Срба, Хрвата и Словенаца / Državnotvorna stranka demokrata Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca) 1919: A group of hard-core republicans secedes 1920: The republican dissidents form the Republican Democratic Party (Републиканска демократска странка / Republikanska demokratska stranka) 1921: Republican Party is renamed as Yugoslav Republican Party (Југословенска републиканска странка / Jugoslovenska republikanska stranka) 1921: The party is formally named as the Yugoslav Democratic Party (Југословенска демократска странка / Jugoslovenska demokratska stranka) gaining a statute 1924: A faction formed the ⇒ Independent Democratic Party (Самостална демократска странка / Samostalna demokratska stranka) 1929: monarchic dictatorship is established and parties are banned 1935: preserving structure, the Democrats return into politics with the reintroduction of multi-parliamentarism 1945: Parties are again banned, JDS goes into pacifist resistance to Communism 1948: JDS is destroyed by Communists, but "Our Word" (Naša reč) emigrant newspaper is organized maintaining Democrats' ideology 1963: emigrants reform the party as the Democratic Alternative (Demokratska alternativa) emigrant movement abroad 1968: student liberal demonstrations in Belgrade, opposition to Communist dictatorship formed => Committee for the Protection of Human Rights (Комитет за заштиту људских права / Komitet za zaštitu ljudskih prava), considered predecessor of the modern Democratic Party 1982: Democratic Alternative ceases to exist 1989: Reestablishment of the party declared (Democratic Party (Serbia) 1990: The party is reorganized as a political party, but just in Serbia 1990: "Our Word" stops editing 1991: A nationalist group seceded as the Serbian Liberal Party (Српска либерална странка / Srpska liberalna stranka) 1992: Conservative wing seceded as the Democratic Party of Serbia (Демократска странка Србије / Demokratska stranka Srbije) 1996: A faction seceded as the Democratic Center (Демократски центар / Demokratski centar) 2001: The party changed its ideology to social democracy 2004: The ⇒ Democratic Centre returned into the Democratic Party 2005: A faction seceded as the ⇒ Liberal Democratic Party 2007: ⇒ Civic Alliance of Serbia merged into the Liberal Democratic Party From Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia to Reformist Party 1989: The pan-Yugoslav Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia (Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije) is founded 1991: The party is renamed in Serbia into the Reformist Party (Reformska stranka) 1992: The party merged with the Republican Club (Republikanski klub) into the Civic Alliance of Serbia (Građanski savez Srbije) Civic Alliance