1.
Prokić, Milica
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956) Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, 2023.
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Goli Otok (Barren Island) was a site of the master political prison and forced labor camp of the socialist Yugoslavia between 1949 and 1956. The imprisoned, accused of siding with Stalin in the Tito–Stalin political rift, were sent to undergo ‘self-managed re-education’ through ‘socially beneficial labor’ in the island’s limestone quarries. The inmates were forced to build their own prison out of that very limestone – the first known human dwellings on the previously uninhabited island. They were also often forced to break, crumble and to carry massive stone loads from one place to another and back, with no constructive or productive purpose. However, the labor camp authorities also operated a lucrative business, oriented towards country-wide distribution, and sometimes towards international export of the island’s limestone. The quarried stone of the island therefore travelled more widely than its excavators, whose movements were limited to their island-prison. Set at the intersection of labor history and environmental history and drawing on the archival materials of the Yugoslav State Security Service, oral history interviews with the former prisoners, and their published and unpublished written memoirs, this paper examines the interrelations of the prison-island, its stone material, and the prisoners’ laboring bodies.
2.
Batista, Anamarija
Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Viderman, Tihomir (Ed.): Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations , Forthcoming.
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This text scrutinizes the concept of luxury in the context of self-governing socialism as the subject matter of particular importance in challenging and unsettling contemporary thought, thus making it transgressive.
3.
Grubački, Isidora
Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia Book Chapter
In: Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Tolomelli, Marica; Zimmermann, Susan (Ed.): Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, 2022.
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4.
Latinović, Goran
Jugoslovensko-švedski odnosi (1941‒1945) [Yugoslav-Swedish relations] Journal Article
In: Istorija 20. veka [20th century history], vol. XXXIII, iss. 1, pp. 45‒60, 2015.
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5.
Centrih, Lev
The Road to Collapse: The Demise of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Online
2014, visited: 01.01.2014.
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6.
Milićević, Nataša
Југословенска власт и српско грађанство 1944-1950 [The Yugoslav Authorities and Serbian Bourgeoisie 1944-1950] Book
2009.
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2023
Prokić, Milica
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956) Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, convict labour, forced labour, yugoslavia
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2022
Batista, Anamarija
Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Viderman, Tihomir (Ed.): Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations , Forthcoming.
Abstract | Tags: architecture, contemporary, socialism, yugoslavia
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Grubački, Isidora
Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia Book Chapter
In: Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Tolomelli, Marica; Zimmermann, Susan (Ed.): Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, feminism, gender, labour movements, socialism, yugoslavia
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2015
Latinović, Goran
Jugoslovensko-švedski odnosi (1941‒1945) [Yugoslav-Swedish relations] Journal Article
In: Istorija 20. veka [20th century history], vol. XXXIII, iss. 1, pp. 45‒60, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, forced labour, sweden, yugoslavia
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2014
Centrih, Lev
The Road to Collapse: The Demise of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Online
2014, visited: 01.01.2014.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, socialism, work brigades, yugoslavia
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2009
Milićević, Nataša
Југословенска власт и српско грађанство 1944-1950 [The Yugoslav Authorities and Serbian Bourgeoisie 1944-1950] Book
2009.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, serbia, socialism, yugoslavia
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