Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the Gdr and Yugoslavia

This book breaks new ground, taking business history where it has only reluctantly gone in the past. The volume makes a plea for the utility of studying the Global East to business history and the utility of business history to the study of the Global East.

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica is Senior Lecturer based in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. His first book The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment was published by I.B. Tauris in 2016.

Sasa Vejzagic earned a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence in 2021. He is interested in economic, business, and social history of the 20th century in Yugoslavia. Currently he is a research associate at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.