Social Democrats of Croatia (Croatian: Socijaldemokrati Hrvatske, SDH) is a now defunct left-wing political party in Croatia.

It was founded in 1990 under the name of Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Croatian: Socijaldemokratska stranka Hrvatske, SDSH). Like most parties created at the time, it was opposed to Communist government and wanted Croatia to secede from Yugoslavia, yet it had the distinction of being of the few to present itself as left-wing. The party founders included many prominent intellectuals, including Miroslav Tudjman, who was at the time opposed to his father and future president Franjo Tudjman. Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... . Franjo Tuđman (May 14, 1922 - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia in the 1990s. ...

The party claimed that it was continuing tradition of the very first Social Democratic Party of Croatia, created in 1894 and merged in 1919 into Communist Party of Yugoslavia. SKJ flag in Serbo-Croat, with Cyrillic script SKJ flag in Serbo-Croat, with Latin script SKJ flag in Albanian SKJ flag in Hungarian SKJ flag in Italian SKJ flag in Macedonian SKJ flag in Slovenian The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (after 1952 the League of Communists of Yugoslavia) was...

On the first parliamentary elections in 1990, SDSH joined moderate Coalition of People's Accord and fared badly, winning only a handful of seats. However, its position was strong enough to warrant ministerial post in the national unity government of Franjo Greguric in 1991. The party lost that post when its prominent member Zvonko Lerotić defected to Croatian Democratic Union. Franjo Greguric (Franjo Greguric) is Croatian politician. ... The Croatian Democratic Union (Croatian: Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica, HDZ), is a Croatian political party. ...

Before 1992 parliamentary and presidential elections SDH was involved in bitter dispute with former Croatian Communist Party over its rebranding into Social Democratic Party of Croatia. SDH claimed that its name was stolen. Croatian Communist Party (Croatian Komunistička Partija Hrvatske) also known as the Croatian League of Communists (Croatian Savez Komunista Hrvatske). ... The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Croatian: Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske) is the main socialist (Social Democrat) political party in Croatia. ...

The election showed SDP to be much stronger party than SDSH, which failed to enter Sabor. At the same time SDSH leader Antun Vujić; finished last in the presidential race.

This ultimately led to SDH and SDP patching their difference and former being incorporated into the latter in 1994.

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