Splendour, misery, and possibilities : : a x-ray of socialist Yugoslavia / / 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...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 117
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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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.
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Table of 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.