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

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

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

Contributors:

By (Author) Darko Suvin

ISBN:

9781608468010

Publisher:

Haymarket Books

Imprint:

Haymarket Books

Publication Date:

29th May 2018

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
History of other geographical groupings and regions
Social classes
Political economy
European history

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

428

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 228mm

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.

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." -- Victor Strazzeri * Socialism and Democracy *

Author Bio

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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