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The Giants Era: The Process of Industrialization in Socialist Yugoslavia 1947 - 1952

After winning the elections for the Constitutional Assembly in 1945 the Communist Party took power in the newly declared Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Following the Soviet template, an economic model was designed in which the state authorities dictated the direction and pace of development. It peaked in 1947 with the implementation of the Five-Year Development Plan of National Economy at federal, national and local level. Ideologically motivated building of heavy industry and electrical industry was to provide a base for the independence and self- sufficiency of the state’s economy. This paper analyzes the building process of four industrial plants of federal significance aiming to examine impacts of politics on industrialization and, indirectly, on the urban planning as well as on the population movement and structure. Four case studies are comparable for a further research of consequences of the ideology-driven industrialization process in the last quarter of the 1940s and early 1950s in Yugoslavia.

industrialization process ; Yugoslavia ; Five year plan ; 1947 – 1952

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