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Splendour, misery, and possibilities : an X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Suvin, Darko, 1930- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; 117.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004325210
9004325212
ISSN:1570-1522 ;