Article ID: CBB274703066

Automotive factory ‘Crvena Zastava’: Yugoslav self-management socialism and challenges for national automobile industry (August 2018)

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In 1955 the Automotive Factory ‘Crvena Zastava’ (Red Flag factory) began to manufacture automobiles based on the FIAT license and became a driving force of the communist Yugoslavia transformation from an agrarian into industrialised, urban and motorised country. This paper explores Zastava’s experience of building and developing the Yugoslav automobile industry in the context of the Yugoslav self-management system from the 1950s to the 1980s. The article aims at showing that the concept of self-management was sensible in light of the multinational Yugoslavia break from the Soviet bloc, but that the net effect of its implementation proved problematic for the national automobile industry. Additionally, Zastava leadership attempts to achieve a larger industrial scale and financial autonomy clashed with the Yugoslavia trend towards decentralisation as much as the communist leadership’s fear of an alternative centre of power.

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Authors & Contributors
Case, Peter
Hamilton, Shane
Lagendijk, Vincent
Lotysz, Slawomir
Phillipson, Garry
Savelli, Mat
Journals
The Journal of Transport History
Agricultural History
Culture and Cosmos
History of the Human Sciences
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsbury Publishing
Routledge
Transcript Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Toronto Press
Concepts
Management techniques
Socialism
Automobile industry
Cold War
Psychiatry
International cooperation
People
Jung, Carl Gustav
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Michurin, Ivan Vladimirovich
Zhang Jian
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Yugoslavia
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Hungary
Poland
United States
Institutions
Fiat (firm)
World Bank
Borgward-Gruppe
Fiat Automobili Srbija Serbian automobile manufacturing company
Škoda (Firm)
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