1. Socialist entrepreneurship and integrated peasant economy : failed collectivization in Yugoslavia (1949–1953)Lev Centrih, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: 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.
Keywords: collectivization, entrepreneurship, integrated peasant economy, peasant cooperatives, petty commodity production, Slovenia
Published in RUP: 30.09.2025; Views: 369; Downloads: 11
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2. Osor, insularity and its surroundings : the creation of a regional identity caught between the global economy and local subsistenceMartina Blečić Kavur, Boris Kavur, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: When observed from a broader perspective, in the 1st millennium BC, the regions of the Adriatic underwent structuring processes that affected many domains. On a political level, this was marked by the emergence of municipal and even state-like institutions; on a social level, it involved both the affirmation of elites and the development of specialized classes of craftspeople and traders. Lastly, in terms of settlements, it entailed the more intensive hierarchization of agglomerations in the region and the creation of special forms of public infrastructure within settlements. In this paper, we discuss the settlement of Osor, which transformed during this period from a prehistoric settlement into a major proto-urban center of the northern Adriatic. Its location within the landscape and long-distance trade networks, reinforcing its insularity, shaped an economy and identity that was unique due to its cosmopolitan character and distinctive form – even in comparison to geographically close centers such as the Histrian Nesactium.
Keywords: Osor, Iron Age, insularity, economy, identity
Published in RUP: 26.09.2025; Views: 383; Downloads: 13
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9. Our great depression of post-capitalism and not of capitalism (New Deal as the managerial revolution and understanding of our times)Tonči Kuzmanić, 2019, original scientific article Keywords: post-capitalism, capitalism, death of capitalism, language games, depression, economy, managerial revolution, Big Society
Published in RUP: 22.12.2021; Views: 2192; Downloads: 25
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10. Next steps in developing thermally modified timber to meet requirements of European low carbon economyAndreja Kutnar, Dick Sandberg, 2015, original scientific article Keywords: EPD, LCA, nizkoogljična bio-kemija, trajnostni razvoj, EPD, LCD, low carbon bio-economy, PCR, sustainability
Published in RUP: 03.04.2017; Views: 4170; Downloads: 192
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