Splendour, misery, and possibilities : : a x-ray of socialist Yugoslavia / / by Darko Suvin ; with a foreword by Fredric Jameson.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 117
• VerfasserIn: Suvin, Darko, 1930-
• TeilnehmendeR: Jameson, Fredric,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 117.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004325212
• ISSN: 1570-1522
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Darko Suvin ; with a foreword by Fredric Jameson.

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 .