Taming the Yugoslav Space: Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century

Beograd , Regensburg : Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, 2023.

Academic editor: D. Kežić, V. Petrović

This book is the result of close cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg and the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade. In 2019, a core group from these institutions developed a research proposal entitled “Resilient Infrastructures? Exploring Continuities throughout the Yugoslav 20th Century”. This cooperation was turned into a project supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BAMF), and the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development. From the outset, our goal was to experiment with fairly novel historical approaches inspired by the spatial turn in order to shed light on Yugoslav history from a new angle, and to question that history’s entrenched periodization.

Chapters

Role Models and Renegades: Tito’s Team as a Political Infrastructure and the Roots of the Soviet-Yugoslav Split 1938–1948

Gužvica S., , in: Taming the Yugoslav Space: Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century.: Beograd, Regensburg: Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, 2023. P. 185–211.

This article will examine the theoretical and practical continuities of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) from Tito’s struggle to become general secretary in 1938 until the Tito-Stalin Split in 1948. I argue that the overarching political strategy of Tito and his closest associates, which remained fundamentally unchanged throughout this period, was a major, if ...

Added: January 22, 2024

Keywords: infrastructure, sociocultural continuity, Yugoslavia, Public infrastructure, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia