Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities
An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia
Published on 14. July 2016
Book
Hardback
452 pages
978-90-04-30694-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
26 s/w Abbildungen, 7 farbige Abbildungen
7 Illustrations, color; 26 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-30694-3 (9789004306943)
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Person
Darko Suvin, Ph.D. (1970) Zagreb University, is Professor Emeritus of McGill University. He has published 21 books on Literature, Dramaturgy, Culture, and Political Epistemology; also poetry. Major publications: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction; To Brecht and Beyond; Defined by a Hollow.
Content
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface: Pro Doma Sua
PART 1: FUNDAMENTS: FREEDOM AND ACCUMULATION
1: Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY
2: Accumulation and Its Discontents
PART 2: CLASS INTERESTS AND POLITICS AS SFRY DOMINANTS
3: On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia
4: On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict
5: What Has Been and What Could Have Been
6: 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)
7: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia
PART 3: SELF-GOVERNMENT VS. ALIENATION: A TRACTATE ON YUGOSLAV ECONOMICS AND POLITICS
Part 3.1: On Self-management In S.F.R. Yugoslavia: A Critical Stock-Taking (1945-72)
8: Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, Or the View from Above
9: Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, Or the View from the Workers
10: Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events
Part 3.2: On the Horizon of Disalienation in S.F.R. Yugoslavia: Self-Government and Plebeian Democracy
11: On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production
12: In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-management
13: In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism
14: Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia)
Appendix 2: The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia 1945-72
References
Acknowledgements
Preface: Pro Doma Sua
PART 1: FUNDAMENTS: FREEDOM AND ACCUMULATION
1: Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY
2: Accumulation and Its Discontents
PART 2: CLASS INTERESTS AND POLITICS AS SFRY DOMINANTS
3: On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia
4: On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict
5: What Has Been and What Could Have Been
6: 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)
7: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia
PART 3: SELF-GOVERNMENT VS. ALIENATION: A TRACTATE ON YUGOSLAV ECONOMICS AND POLITICS
Part 3.1: On Self-management In S.F.R. Yugoslavia: A Critical Stock-Taking (1945-72)
8: Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, Or the View from Above
9: Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, Or the View from the Workers
10: Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events
Part 3.2: On the Horizon of Disalienation in S.F.R. Yugoslavia: Self-Government and Plebeian Democracy
11: On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production
12: In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-management
13: In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism
14: Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia)
Appendix 2: The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia 1945-72
References