Soviet in content - people’s in form: The building of Farming Cooperative Centres and the Soviet-Yugoslav dispute, 1948-1950
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It was not until 1948, when the Cominform conflict escalated, that the Communist Party of Yugoslavia began a thorough
implementation of the Soviet model in Yugoslav agriculture – due to the Soviet criticism, the CPY made immediate legislative
changes and started a class struggle in Yugoslav villages. Simultaneously, and just a few months before the Fifth Congress,
Josip Broz Tito initiated a competition for building 4,000 Farming Cooperative Centres throughout Yugoslavia - they were built
in accordance with the social-realist “national in form – socialist in content” slogan. Once the building started, in his
Congress speech, Radovan Zogović, a leader of the Serbian Agitprop department, offered the first official proclamation of
Socialist Realism in the post-war period by a political authority. This article analyses the process of planning, designing and
building of the Farming Cooperative Centres; discusses their political, ideological and formal implications; and inquires into
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the specific role of architecture, joined with the theory of Socialist Realism, in building Yugoslav socialism.
Keywords:
The Soviet-Yugoslav dispute / The Five-year plan / Farming Cooperative Centres / Socialist Realism / National in formSource:
Spatium, 2011, 25, 39-49Publisher:
- Institute of Architecture, Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia