Socialistično upravljanje v globalnem kontekstu: tehnokratski razvoj v Sovjetski zvezi in Jugoslaviji, 1955–1991

Šifra projekta: N6-0399 (B)

SICRIS

Finančni vir: Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije

Vrsta: projekt okvirnih programov EC - ERC perspektiva

Trajanje projekta: 1. 1. 2025 – 31. 12. 2027

Vodja projekta: dr. Ivan Sablin

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Opis projekta:

The project addresses management and governance under state socialism and aims to enhance the understanding of knowledge-driven models and technocracy on the basis of diverse historical experiences of the USSR and Yugoslavia. Synthesizing methods from conceptual, institutional, and political history, as well as social sciences, it focuses on three areas: 1) The state: This area includes the concept of the popular state, diversity management, and public micromanagement. 2) Production and distribution: This area involves studying environmental management, the role of cybernetics, and the emergence of consumer socialism. 3) Life cycles: This area features the management of gender relations, aging, and health. Employing the perspectives of global and comparative history and transcending boundaries between national histories, it will trace the development of scientific and systemic management and governance models between 1955 and 1991 through interconnected case studies of the USSR and Yugoslavia.

As a political and economic system, state socialism was a major invention of the twentieth century and became a global phenomenon over its second half. Since the 1950s, socialist governance increasingly relied on the idea that political, economic, and social lives were governable closed systems. The accumulation of knowledge and its application became a key function of state socialist regimes, while the scientific and technological revolution was posited as a new stage on the way to communism. Becoming global during the Cold War, the quest for knowledge-driven decision-making has persisted, fueling debates on technocracy and its relationship with democracy. The socialist notion of holistic (all-encompassing) governmentality informed contemporary critiques of global capitalism and its environmental and economic consequences. The concepts, institutions, and practices that emerged under state socialism – from welfare systems and family legislation to factories and institutions of higher education – persisted in many contexts. Problems such as low trust in institutions, corruption, and low efficiency also persisted.

 

• Delavnica “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s”