Bought & sold : living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia /

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In this work, Patrick Hyder Patterson shows that Yugoslavia displayed styles and levels of consumerism associated with Western capitalism, but generated within an identifiably socialist system.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Consumer behavior > Social aspects > Yugoslavia.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Yugoslavia.
Socialism and culture > Yugoslavia.
Consommateurs > Comportement > Aspect social > Yougoslavie.
Socialisme et culture > Yougoslavie.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
Consumer behavior > Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Socialism and culture.
Verbraucherverhalten
Konsumgesellschaft
Soziale Situation
Lebensstandard
Sozialismus
Verbraucherverhalten.
Konsumgesellschaft.
Lebensstandard.
Soziale Situation.
Sozialismus.
Yugoslavia.
Jugoslawien
Jugoslawien.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the good life and the Yugoslav dream
  • Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture
  • Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle
  • Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture
  • Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture
  • Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism
  • Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure
  • Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream
  • Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption
  • Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of communism, and the death of Yugoslavia
  • Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.

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