Original scientific paper
BASIC FEATURES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FROM 1945 TO 1953
Husnija Kamberović
; Institute of History, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The Bosnian Hercegovinian society, which immediately after the war was predominantly peasant, has undergone since 1953 some social transformations. In this article, the author attempts to explain ideological premises and basic features of economic policies, following transformations in agriculture and industry. At the end of the WW II, 80 per cent of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina lived in villages, and only 2 per cent working in factories. Communist regime, inspired by the Soviet economic policies, forced industrialization of the country, a process which placed the agriculture in the background. A low technical education of workers, however, did not allow significant changes of agrarian society of BiH, even though some progress in industrial production was noted since 1953. This is the main reason why under the aegis of industrial development we witness a development of agrarian society.
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214454
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Publication date:
4.8.1998.
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