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Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia

Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia

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General European HistoryGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004306943
ISBN13: 9789004306943
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 14 2016
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Suvin's 'X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965- 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia - including its achievements and degeneration - to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx's great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question.

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