Political Science Communism & Socialism
Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities
An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2018
- Category
- Communism & Socialism, Social Classes, Economic Conditions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781608468010
- Publish Date
- Mar 2018
- List Price
- $61.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Contributor Notes
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.
Editorial Reviews
Suvin's Splendour, Misery and Possibilities 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."
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