Notes

In the Summer of 2019, I had the very good fortune of going to Rijeka, a city in Northern Croatia, and conducting preliminary fieldwork for what I thought was going to be my master’s thesis. I was researching self-management, the unique system of political economy pioneered by Socialist Yugoslavia during the years 1950-1989. I read through factory board minutes, workers’ council meeting minutes, factory newspapers, and even met with a former oil refinery worker who had written for the factory newspaper of the only oil refinery in Croatia.

In the end, none of this material was usable for my thesis. A lot of things happened – the pandemic, surviving an airplane catching on fire and making an emergency landing – and I selected a much more computer-based digital history project focused on a much earlier chapter of Yugoslavia’s history for my final thesis project. I could think of no better place to put this material – and these thoughts – than this assignment.

Unfortunately, when I was making this website, I did not realise that the URL would be my username! So, please ignore the username at the top of the website.

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