| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages) |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 117 |
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Historical materialism book series ; 117
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| Contents |
Front Matter -- Introduction: Pro Domo Sua -- Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY -- Accumulation and Its Discontents -- On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia -- On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict -- What Has Been and What Could Have Been -- 15 Theses about Communism and Yugoslavia, or the Two-Headed Janus of Emancipation through the State (Metamorphoses and Anamorphoses of 'On the Jewish Question' by Marx) -- The Communist Party of Yugoslavia -- Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, or the View from Above -- Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, or the View from the Workers -- Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events -- On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production -- In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-Management -- In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism -- Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities -- Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia) -- The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia 1945-72 -- References -- Index of Proper Names of Historical Persons |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2016) |
| Subject |
Communism -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Communism
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Politics and government
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Politisches System
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Sozialismus
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| SUBJECT |
Yugoslavia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003902
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Yugoslavia -- Politics and government -- 1980-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003903
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Yugoslavia -- History -- 1945-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149477
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Yugoslavia -- History -- 1980-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149479
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| Subject |
Yugoslavia
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Jugoslawien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016026192 |
| ISBN |
9789004325210 |
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9004325212 |
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