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Milan Popadić

IRON ROAD TO SOCIALISM: CONSTRUCTION
OF RAILWAY LINE NOVI PAZAR — RAŠKA

Decision about construction of railway line Novi Pazar — Raška was
brought in 1949. Railway line was constructed during 1950 and in 1951 was bro-
ught decision about stopping works. In the text are researched conditions which
brought to decision about construction in this way to decision about stopping con-
struction. It is recognizable significant of railway as a symbol of modern society
that was brought to connection with socialistic ideology of constructing of natio-
nal state. By construction of railway and excelling of it s significant of socialistic
society clearly were expressed its modernistic aspirations. These aspirations were
not only imitation of capitalistic model but aspiration to articulate different, ide-
ological and political economical view on the world which was actually finishing
capitalistic developing stream, overgrowing from socialistic into capitalistic state.
This special relation analyses on the passing project of realization of rai-
lway line Raška -Novi Pazar in which is possible to notice basic models of soci-
alistic construction, and their specifics and imperfections. It is possible to conc-
lude that railway line Raška — Novi Pazar started in 1949–1951 as a project of
modernization, stood unfinished exactly from the same reason. Namely, state firm
of the Yugoslav railway in 1964 brought program of modernization which appre-
hension massively cancelling of the short and unpaid railway lines. Research and
problematic of construction of railway line Raška — Novi Pazar from period of
1949–1951 are significant for temporary development of Novi Pazar because that
in the beginning of the 21 century project of railway line Raška — Novi Pazar
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renewed. A new project clearly refers to inheritance of earlier plan of constructi-
on. Realization of this project was planned for old passed 2007. Still, railway line
Raška — Novi Pazar become infallible part of regional developing planes in the
first and in the second decade of the 21 century.
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