Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Unkovski-Korica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Unkovski-Korica |
| SIGNATURE | UNKOVSKI-KORICA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4582-9651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decentring the West? Civilizational solidarity and (de)colonization in theories of the Russia-Ukraine War
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a growing literature promoting the Ukrainian national cause, framed in decolonial terms, has influenced public discourse about the Russia-Ukraine War in the West. Filtered through the activist interpretation of cultural epistemologies, with their emphasis on the centring and decentring of knowledges, the war has been imagined primarily as a colonial emanation of a Russian narrative. We argue that the he…
Business history goes East
this article introduces the special issue 'Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the Gdr and Yugoslavia' .It starts with a review of the growing literature on the history of business organisation in the Global East, or the Second World in the cold War.It then argues that mainstream business history struggles to incorporate the findings of this emerging body of work, relying as it does on the traditional view of the Soviet-style firm as p…
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective
This essay is a contribution to comparative capitalism studies. We begin with a critique of the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ school, before presenting the ‘variegated’ alternative. We note difficulties of both schools in characterising statist challengers to the dominant market order. The rise of China has made this a pressing issue, one that raises questions: Is China capitalist, and since when? And how should one analyse the communist world, which…
Non-aligned Cities in the Cold War
In the Cold War, Yugoslavia was famous for its non-aligned foreign policy. Non-alignment was a policy of balancing between the superpower blocs, but also of forging global collaboration of non-aligned states and actors in international institutions, with a view to increasing their room for manoeuvre at home and abroad. Relying on local and federal archives, this article explores the role of municipalities in Yugoslav foreign policy in two parts. …
From the Cold War to the Kosovo War
This paper traces the different approaches to foreign policy in the British Labour Party through the prism of its long-term relationship with Yugoslavia. It goes beyond caricatures of Labour and British policy as merely status quo powers in the Balkans. Relying on Yugoslav archival records, as well as secondary sources and the British press, the paper shows that Atlanticism was the dominant approach in the Labour Party from the early Cold War to …
From the Cold War to the Kosovo War
Cet article retrace les différentes approches de la politique étrangère au sein du Parti travailliste (PT) à travers le prisme de sa relation à long terme avec la Yougoslavie, au-delà de la vision caricaturale de la politique du PT et de la Grande-Bretagne comme simples forces de statu quo dans les Balkans. Reposant aussi bien sur des documents d’archives yougoslaves que sur des sources secondaires et sur la presse britannique, l’article montre q…
The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia
Here, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica re-assesses the key episodes of Tito's rule - from the joint Stalin-Tito offensive of 1944, through to the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the market reforms of the 1950s and the 'turn to the West' which led to Yugoslavia's non-alignment policy. For the first time, Unkovski-Korica also outlines Tito's internal battle with the Workers' Councils - empowered union bodies which emerged with the 'withering away of the party' …
Constructing Yugoslavia
No abstract available
World War II and the National Question
This essay investigates the origins of the autonomous status of Vojvodina in post-war Serbia and Yugoslavia. It charts the formation of national and regional consciousness among Vojvodina’s Serbs, Germans and Hungarians, from Habsburg times to World War II. It then argues that Nazi Germany’s racial war radicalised national tensions in Vojvodina. Nazi defeat resulted in the brutal expulsion of Vojvodina’s Germans, making Serbs for the first time a…
The Yugoslav Communists' Special Relationship with the British Labour Party 1950–1956
This article uses new evidence to investigate Yugoslav foreign policy through the prism of inter-party relations rather than traditional high diplomacy. It shows the Yugoslav Communists hoped comradeship with Britain's Labour Party would influence Western policies to counter the Soviet threat. Initial successes, especially a deterrent statement by the British Cabinet in February 1951, inspired great optimism. The Labour left was also delighted th…
Workers' Councils in the Service of the Market
This article provides a new synthesis on the origins of self-management in Yugoslavia on the basis of new archival research. It rejects the dominant view in the historiography that self-management arose merely as an ideological justification for the split with Stalin's USSR in 1948. Rather, it demonstrates that the introduction of workers' councils was part of an elaborate effort on the part of the Communist leadership to return to its pre-1948, …
Workers' Councils in the Service of the Market
This article provides a new synthesis on the origins of self-management in Yugoslavia on the basis of new archival research. It rejects the dominant view in the historiography that self-management arose merely as an ideological justification for the split with Stalin's USSR in 1948. Rather, it demonstrates that the introduction of workers' councils was part of an elaborate effort on the part of the Communist leadership to return to its pre-1948, …
Decentring the West? Civilizational solidarity and (de)colonization in theories of the Russia-Ukraine War
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a growing literature promoting the Ukrainian national cause, framed in decolonial terms, has influenced public discourse about the Russia-Ukraine War in the West. Filtered through the activist interpretation of cultural epistemologies, with their emphasis on the centring and decentring of knowledges, the war has been imagined primarily as a colonial emanation of a Russian narrative. We argue that the he…
The Yugoslav Communists' Special Relationship with the British Labour Party 1950–1956
This article uses new evidence to investigate Yugoslav foreign policy through the prism of inter-party relations rather than traditional high diplomacy. It shows the Yugoslav Communists hoped comradeship with Britain's Labour Party would influence Western policies to counter the Soviet threat. Initial successes, especially a deterrent statement by the British Cabinet in February 1951, inspired great optimism. The Labour left was also delighted th…
Business history goes East
this article introduces the special issue 'Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the Gdr and Yugoslavia' .It starts with a review of the growing literature on the history of business organisation in the Global East, or the Second World in the cold War.It then argues that mainstream business history struggles to incorporate the findings of this emerging body of work, relying as it does on the traditional view of the Soviet-style firm as p…
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective
This essay is a contribution to comparative capitalism studies. We begin with a critique of the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ school, before presenting the ‘variegated’ alternative. We note difficulties of both schools in characterising statist challengers to the dominant market order. The rise of China has made this a pressing issue, one that raises questions: Is China capitalist, and since when? And how should one analyse the communist world, which…
Non-aligned Cities in the Cold War
In the Cold War, Yugoslavia was famous for its non-aligned foreign policy. Non-alignment was a policy of balancing between the superpower blocs, but also of forging global collaboration of non-aligned states and actors in international institutions, with a view to increasing their room for manoeuvre at home and abroad. Relying on local and federal archives, this article explores the role of municipalities in Yugoslav foreign policy in two parts. …
World War II and the National Question
This essay investigates the origins of the autonomous status of Vojvodina in post-war Serbia and Yugoslavia. It charts the formation of national and regional consciousness among Vojvodina’s Serbs, Germans and Hungarians, from Habsburg times to World War II. It then argues that Nazi Germany’s racial war radicalised national tensions in Vojvodina. Nazi defeat resulted in the brutal expulsion of Vojvodina’s Germans, making Serbs for the first time a…
The Yugoslav Communists' Special Relationship with the British Labour Party 1950–1956
This article uses new evidence to investigate Yugoslav foreign policy through the prism of inter-party relations rather than traditional high diplomacy. It shows the Yugoslav Communists hoped comradeship with Britain's Labour Party would influence Western policies to counter the Soviet threat. Initial successes, especially a deterrent statement by the British Cabinet in February 1951, inspired great optimism. The Labour left was also delighted th…
Workers' Councils in the Service of the Market
This article provides a new synthesis on the origins of self-management in Yugoslavia on the basis of new archival research. It rejects the dominant view in the historiography that self-management arose merely as an ideological justification for the split with Stalin's USSR in 1948. Rather, it demonstrates that the introduction of workers' councils was part of an elaborate effort on the part of the Communist leadership to return to its pre-1948, …
The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia
Here, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica re-assesses the key episodes of Tito's rule - from the joint Stalin-Tito offensive of 1944, through to the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the market reforms of the 1950s and the 'turn to the West' which led to Yugoslavia's non-alignment policy. For the first time, Unkovski-Korica also outlines Tito's internal battle with the Workers' Councils - empowered union bodies which emerged with the 'withering away of the party' …
Constructing Yugoslavia
No abstract available
World War II and the National Question
This essay investigates the origins of the autonomous status of Vojvodina in post-war Serbia and Yugoslavia. It charts the formation of national and regional consciousness among Vojvodina’s Serbs, Germans and Hungarians, from Habsburg times to World War II. It then argues that Nazi Germany’s racial war radicalised national tensions in Vojvodina. Nazi defeat resulted in the brutal expulsion of Vojvodina’s Germans, making Serbs for the first time a…
From the Cold War to the Kosovo War
This paper traces the different approaches to foreign policy in the British Labour Party through the prism of its long-term relationship with Yugoslavia. It goes beyond caricatures of Labour and British policy as merely status quo powers in the Balkans. Relying on Yugoslav archival records, as well as secondary sources and the British press, the paper shows that Atlanticism was the dominant approach in the Labour Party from the early Cold War to …
From the Cold War to the Kosovo War
Cet article retrace les différentes approches de la politique étrangère au sein du Parti travailliste (PT) à travers le prisme de sa relation à long terme avec la Yougoslavie, au-delà de la vision caricaturale de la politique du PT et de la Grande-Bretagne comme simples forces de statu quo dans les Balkans. Reposant aussi bien sur des documents d’archives yougoslaves que sur des sources secondaires et sur la presse britannique, l’article montre q…
Non-aligned Cities in the Cold War
In the Cold War, Yugoslavia was famous for its non-aligned foreign policy. Non-alignment was a policy of balancing between the superpower blocs, but also of forging global collaboration of non-aligned states and actors in international institutions, with a view to increasing their room for manoeuvre at home and abroad. Relying on local and federal archives, this article explores the role of municipalities in Yugoslav foreign policy in two parts. …
Business history goes East
this article introduces the special issue 'Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the Gdr and Yugoslavia' .It starts with a review of the growing literature on the history of business organisation in the Global East, or the Second World in the cold War.It then argues that mainstream business history struggles to incorporate the findings of this emerging body of work, relying as it does on the traditional view of the Soviet-style firm as p…
Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective
This essay is a contribution to comparative capitalism studies. We begin with a critique of the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ school, before presenting the ‘variegated’ alternative. We note difficulties of both schools in characterising statist challengers to the dominant market order. The rise of China has made this a pressing issue, one that raises questions: Is China capitalist, and since when? And how should one analyse the communist world, which…
Decentring the West? Civilizational solidarity and (de)colonization in theories of the Russia-Ukraine War
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a growing literature promoting the Ukrainian national cause, framed in decolonial terms, has influenced public discourse about the Russia-Ukraine War in the West. Filtered through the activist interpretation of cultural epistemologies, with their emphasis on the centring and decentring of knowledges, the war has been imagined primarily as a colonial emanation of a Russian narrative. We argue that the he…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Balkan and Eastern European Studies (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Communism (5 works)