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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Suvin, Darko, 1930- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 117 Historical materialism book series ; 117.
Subject:	Communism -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century. Communism. Politics and government. Yugoslavia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980. Yugoslavia -- Politics and government -- 1980-1992. Yugoslavia -- History -- 1945-1980. Yugoslavia -- History -- 1980-1992. Yugoslavia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11756527

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

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.

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