Yugoslav Socialism

Author : Radina Vučetić
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633862018

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Coca-Cola Socialism by Radina Vučetić Pdf

This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and consumption the Yugoslav regime was definitely much more receptive to the American model. For Titoist Yugoslavia this tactic turned out to be beneficial, stabilising the regime internally and providing an image of openness in foreign policy. Coca-Cola Socialism addresses the link between cultural diplomacy, culture, consumer society and politics. Its main argument is that both culture and everyday life modelled on the American way were a major source of legitimacy for the Yugoslav Communist Party, and a powerful weapon for both USA and Yugoslavia in the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Radina Vučetić explores how the Party used American culture in order to promote its own values and what life in this socialist and capitalist hybrid system looked like for ordinary people who lived in a country with communist ideology in a capitalist wrapping. Her book offers a careful reevaluation of the limits of appropriating the American dream and questions both an uncritical celebration of Yugoslavia’s openness and an exaggerated depiction of its authoritarianism.

Author : Rory Archer,Igor Duda,Paul Stubbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317053958

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Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism by Rory Archer,Igor Duda,Paul Stubbs Pdf

Socialist countries like Yugoslavia garnered legitimacy through appealing to social equality. Yet social stratification was characteristic of Yugoslav society and increased over the course of the state's existence. By the 1980s the country was divided on socio-economic as well as national lines. Through case studies from a range of social millieux, contributors to this volume seek to 'bring class back in' to Yugoslav historiography, exploring how theorisations of social class informed the politics and policies of social mobility and conversely, how societal or grassroots understandings of class have influenced politics and policy. Rather than focusing on regional differentiation between Yugoslav republics and provinces the emphasis is placed on social differentiation and discontent within particular communities. The contributing authors of these historical studies come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, linking scholarship from the socialist era to contemporary research based on accessing newly available primary sources. Voices of a wide spectrum of informants are included in the volume; from factory workers and subsistence farmers to fictional television characters and pop-folk music superstars.

Author : Katja Praznik
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487508418

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Art Work by Katja Praznik Pdf

By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists' rights.

Author : Srecko Horvat,Igor Stiks
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781686225

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Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism by Srecko Horvat,Igor Stiks Pdf

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically democratic vision of society.

Author : Sharon Zukin
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521206308

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Beyond Marx and Tito by Sharon Zukin Pdf

This study examines the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management.

Author : Harold Lydall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000011346821

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Yugoslav Socialism by Harold Lydall Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of Yugoslav materials, this book describes the origins and development of the unique Yugoslav economic system of 'socialist self-management'. It highlights the achievements and shortcomings of this distinctive industrial economic system and provides a revealing pictureof how the system operates in practice and how this differs from the theory.

Author : Zsófia Lóránd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319782232

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The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia by Zsófia Lóránd Pdf

This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women’s emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?

Author : Breda Luthar,Maruša Pušnik
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780984406234

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Remembering Utopia by Breda Luthar,Maruša Pušnik Pdf

"The history of socialism lacks close accounts of the texture of life in the margins of society, which include narratives of the feelings, experiences and practices of ordinary people. This book provides them and undermines persisting interpretations of 'real' life under socialism, which rely on macro-studies of social structures and on the political and institutional histories of socialism. As such, the book is also an attempt to de-Westernize the discourse on Central/ Eastern Europe as Europe's periphert or its Orient. The culture of memory is evoked either through oral traditions or textual analyses of records of the public discourse. Both facets contribute to a cultural history of the era of socialism in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1980 (Tito's death)" -- from back cover.

Author : Dario Brentin,Dejan Zec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780429838637

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Sport in Socialist Yugoslavia by Dario Brentin,Dejan Zec Pdf

The history of sport in socialist Yugoslavia is a peculiar lens through which to examine the country’s social, cultural and political transformations. Sport is represented as one of the most popular and engaging cultural phenomena of social life. Sport both embodied the social dynamics of the socialist period as well as revealing questions of the everyday lives of the Yugoslav people. Ultimately, sport was closely intertwined with the country’s overall destiny. This volume offers an introduction into the myriad social functions that sport served in the Yugoslav socialist project. It illustrates how sport was central to the establishment of Yugoslavia’s physical and leisure culture in the early post-Second World War period, an international promotional tool for Yugoslav communists championing the ideological superiority of the ‘Brotherhood and Unity’ and the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as a social field in which the ideological contradictions of Yugoslav socialism became increasingly apparent. The chapters expand the existing knowledge of the processes that defined Yugoslav sport and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of socialist Yugoslavia in the years between 1945 and 1991. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Bogdan Denis Denitch
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Socialism
ISBN : 9780816618439

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Limits and Possibilities by Bogdan Denis Denitch Pdf

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Author : Dijana Jelača,Maša Kolanović,Danijela Lugarić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319474823

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The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia by Dijana Jelača,Maša Kolanović,Danijela Lugarić Pdf

This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories and situated critiques of neoliberalism, the volume rethinks the relationship between capitalism and socialism. Rather than treating capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive systems of political, social and economic order, the volume puts forth the idea that in the context of the former Yugoslavia, they are marked by a mutually intertwined existence not only on the economic level, but also on the level of cultural production and consumption. It argues that culture—although very often treated as secondary in the analyses of either socialism, capitalism or their relationship—has an important role in defining, negotiating, and resisting the social, political and economic values of both systems.

Author : Wayne S. Vucinich
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520369894

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Contemporary Yugoslavia by Wayne S. Vucinich Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Author : Sergej Flere,Rudi Klanjšek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498541978

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The Rise and Fall of Socialist Yugoslavia by Sergej Flere,Rudi Klanjšek Pdf

This book examines the relationship between nationalism and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia under the rule of Josip Broz Tito. It deals particularly with the interactions between communist and intellectual elites. The authors analyze elites’ initial enthusiasm about the Yugoslav federation and how, with time, they found themselves unable to suppress the nationalists in Yugoslavia. Other scholars have argued that, in a certain sense, Tito’s Yugoslavia proved to be a “hatchery” for the nations that once constituted Yugoslavia, making them ever closer to “completeness.” However, as the authors highlight in this study, this process was one of conflict. The personal role of Tito as an arbiter was essential, although, for the majority of his time in power, he did not act as a dictator. His departure was strongly felt in the 1980s, when ethnic entrepreneurial activity began to flourish—and when ethnic and political relations had gone out of control. While a significant part of this book follows the chronology of ethnic elite interaction in communist Yugoslavia, the global context of Yugoslavia’s rise and fall is taken into account. The authors also use Yugoslavia as a case study to test the validity of nationalism studies more generally.

Author : M. George Zaninovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082979993

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The Development of Socialist Yugoslavia by M. George Zaninovich Pdf

Author : Hannes Grandits,Karin Taylor
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789639776692

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Yugoslavia's Sunny Side by Hannes Grandits,Karin Taylor Pdf

This book undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Communism. Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and "ethnic" conflict in the past two decades. For many former citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the "good life" people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country, fell apart. The story evolved from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking among Yugoslav citizens in the 1950s and 1960s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 1980s. The essays review tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration; it is investigated how ideologies aimed to turn workers into consumers of "purposeful" leisure, and how these ideas were set against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking.