20.500.12556/RUP-21809 Socialist entrepreneurship and integrated peasant economy failed collectivization in Yugoslavia (1949–1953) This article explores the specific features of collectivization in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on Slovenia as one of its constituent republics. Through a bottom-up approach, it examines selected cases from the countryside surrounding the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, between 1949 and 1953. Unlike the Soviet and broader Eastern European cases, the Slovene/Yugoslav regime stemmed from both a socialist revolution and the National Liberation War. Alongside coercion, it used pragmatic strategies to win over the peasantry—allowing wealthier peasants to join labour cooperatives and promoting ‘entrepreneurship’, a value rooted in capital- ism, as a socialist principle. While aiming to preserve the industriousness of petty commodity production, the authorities sought to achieve this within a new environment: no longer in private enterprises, but in state or collective (cooperative) ones, protected from the destructive consequences of capitalism. Drawing on case studies, the article demonstrates that collectivization failed: Support from revolutionary activists proved insufficient, peasants rejected the proposed entrepreneurial model, and they con- tinued to pursue individualistic family farming. It explains the persistence of traditional agriculture through the concept of the integrated peasant economy, in dialogue with theories of pluriactivity and petty commodity production. collectivization entrepreneurship integrated peasant economy peasant cooperatives petty commodity production Slovenia kolektivizacija podjetnost integrirana kmečka ekonomija kmečke zadruge drobna blagovna proizvodnja Slovenija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-09-30 09:31:23 2025-09-30 09:31:25 2025-10-18 03:02:26 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 1-12 iss. 4, [article no.] e70026 Vol. 25 Oct. 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 94(497.12):33.025.26:338.43 1471-0358 10.1111/joac.70026 251011843 RAZ_Centrih_Lev_2025.pdf RAZ_Centrih_Lev_2025.pdf 1 590132A2907E321037A17DF33585A42F 3a39b09c383317b563c0563d88e7ed33fd970f005b95ec292d82fd6dc89bb330 ba71dff0-9dcf-11f0-8f0b-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=31719 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joac.70026 0 387e020c-9dd0-11f0-8f0b-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=31720 Fakulteta za humanistične študije 0 0 0