Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia
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| ISBN: | 9789004325210
9004325212
9789004306943
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2016).
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| 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 .
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| Other form: | Print version: Suvin, Darko, 1930- Splendour, misery, and possibilities. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004306943
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