Svjetlo u tunelu Električna energija i elektrifikacija u Bosni i Hercegovini do sredine 1970-ih godina
Light in the Tunnel: Electricity and Electrification in Bosnia and Herzegovina until the mid-1970s

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the importance and usage of electricity in the economic development of socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on accelerated industrialization. One of its prerequisites was a sufficient amount of energy sources, precisely electricity. In the context of imagined, comprehensive social and economic progress, electrification was also crucial as a complex system of building power plants, power lines and electrical networks necessary for electrical energy distribution and its widespread consumption. The author’s primary goal is to draw attention to this vital topic, which has not been notably considered in the historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina until now, and to open up individual, crucial questions from this domain. Based on the original, so far unused archival material, particular emphasis in the article is placed on the achieved success of the electrification of settlements and households during the second half of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, years of economic and constitutional reform and a significant lack of electricity in Yugoslavia.

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