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review July 2026

Energoinvest and the making of global Yugoslavia

Review by Jure Ramšak
Black-and-white photograph of a group of officials walking through an Energoinvest industrial hall during a factory visit. At the centre, Emerik Blum and Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito walk alongside members of a foreign delegation, all dressed in formal suits. They are touring a large electrical engineering facility filled with heavy industrial equipment, transformers, and high-voltage components.
In Engineering Global Socialism (Indiana University Press, 2026), Anna Calori provides a window into Yugoslavia’s global history through the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest. Jure Ramšak writes that, as Calori suggests, memories of alternatives continue to serve as a reservoir of useful history for imagining a different, less capitalocentric future.
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