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Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia

Suvin Darko
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781608468010
Publisert
2018-02-20
Utgiver
Haymarket Books
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
428

Forfatter
Suvin Darko

Biografisk notat

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, as well as poetry. Major publications include Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, To Brecht and Beyond, and Defined by a Hollow.

Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia

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Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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<p>Suvin's <em>Splendour, Misery and Possibilities</em> is a landmark contribution to the scholarship on the socialist experiments of the twentieth century that should be of particular interest to all those unconvinced by the "a priori tenet of Cold War ideology...that a plebian communist revolution must necessarily end in catastrophe."</p>

- Victor Strazzeri, Socialism and Democracy

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of Europe, and the bureaucratic-Socialism of the Soviet Union. Yet this early experimentation and dynamism ultimately gave way to the same sclerotic state-system its creators were trying to avoid. In this engaging treatise, Suvin seeks out the source of this failure.
Les mer
Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism
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
Les mer
  • Title will benefit from general interest in the Historical Materialism Book Series
  • The annual conferences sponsored by Historical Materialism have a growing audience of academics from around the world and offer a captive audience for titles in the book series
  • Inaccessibly priced hardcover edition means that all general readers will wait for the paperback
    • Les mer
    More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of "classics."
    Les mer

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    <p>Suvin's <em>Splendour, Misery and Possibilities</em> is a landmark contribution to the scholarship on the socialist experiments of the twentieth century that should be of particular interest to all those unconvinced by the "a priori tenet of Cold War ideology...that a plebian communist revolution must necessarily end in catastrophe."</p>

    - Victor Strazzeri, Socialism and Democracy

    The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of Europe, and the bureaucratic-Socialism of the Soviet Union. Yet this early experimentation and dynamism ultimately gave way to the same sclerotic state-system its creators were trying to avoid. In this engaging treatise, Suvin seeks out the source of this failure.
    Les mer
    Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism
    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
    Les mer
  • Title will benefit from general interest in the Historical Materialism Book Series
  • The annual conferences sponsored by Historical Materialism have a growing audience of academics from around the world and offer a captive audience for titles in the book series
  • Inaccessibly priced hardcover edition means that all general readers will wait for the paperback
    • Les mer
    More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of "classics."
    Les mer

    Produktdetaljer

    ISBN
    9781608468010
    Publisert
    2018-02-20
    Utgiver
    Haymarket Books
    Høyde
    228 mm
    Bredde
    152 mm
    Aldersnivå
    01, G, 01
    Språk
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Heftet
    Antall sider
    428

    Forfatter
    Suvin Darko

    Biografisk notat

    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, as well as poetry. Major publications include Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, To Brecht and Beyond, and Defined by a Hollow.

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