Beyond Marx and Tito

Beyond Marx and Tito
Author: Sharon Zukin
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1975-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521206303

This study examines the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management.

Art Work

Art Work
Author: Katja Praznik
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1487538197

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects – and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour. This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions behind Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.

Yugoslav Socialism

Yugoslav Socialism
Author: Harold Lydall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1986
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Drawing on a wide range of Yugoslav materials, this book describes the origins and development of the unique Yugoslav economic system of 'socialist self-management'. It highlights the achievements and shortcomings of this distinctive industrial economic system and provides a revealing pictureof how the system operates in practice and how this differs from the theory.

Self-Management

Self-Management
Author: Saul Estrin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521143837

Offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia.

Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class

Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class
Author: Goran Musić
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789633863398

Workers' self-management was one of the unique features of communist Yugoslavia. Goran Musić has investigated the changing ways in which blue-collar workers perceived the recurring crises of the regime. Two self-managed metal enterprises, one in Serbia another in Slovenia, provide the frame of the analysis in the time span between 1945 and 1989. These two factories became famous for strikes in 1988 that evoked echoes in popular discourses in former Yugoslavia. Drawing on interviews, factory publications and other media, local archives, and secondary literature, Musić analyzes the two cases, going beyond the clichés of political manipulation from the top and workers' intrinsic attraction to nationalism. The author explains how, in the later phase of communist Yugoslavia, growing social inequalities among the workers and undemocratic practices inside the self-managed enterprises facilitated the spread of a nationalist and pro-market ideology on the shop floors. Yet rather than being a mass taken advantage of by populist leaders, the working class Musić presents is one with agency and voice, a force that played an important role in shaping the fate of the country. The book thus seeks to open a debate on the social processes leading up to the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Author: Richard West
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0571281109

Few figures have dominated a nation's destiny as much as Marshal Tito of former Yugoslavia. For nearly thirty years he held together mutually hostile religious groups in a deeply divided country, but his death in 1980 rekindled centuries-old hatreds and by 1992 Yugoslavia ceased to exist. In this revealing biography, Richard West questions the full impact of Tito's reign of power and his implicit responsibility for the ensuing violent, bloody war in Bosnia. 'Excellent ... I recommend his book for those who already know about Yugoslavia and want food for thought about the future.' David Owen, Sunday Times 'Admirable ... Carefully researched and extremely readable.' Literary Review 'A passionate book, in which West's historical sense is interlaced with his own very intimate knowledge of Yugoslavia from the late 1940s on and of the poignancy of [subsequent] events.' Fergus Pyle, Irish Times 'Masterly'. Glasgow Herald

The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia

The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia
Author: Zsófia Lóránd
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319782231

This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women’s emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?

Entangled Paths Towards Modernity

Entangled Paths Towards Modernity
Author: Augusta Dimou
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789639776388

This is an important and innovative comparative study of socialist movements and regimes of modernization in the Balkans, encompassing Serbian populism, Bulgarian social democracy and Greek communism. It makes an original contribution both to the history of political ideas and to the political sociology of radical and socialist movements. It provides a fascinating account of the transplantation of ideologies that were adopted from Western Europe and from Russia into the very different environment of the Balkans, and traces their adaptation and their reception in this new environment. Book jacket.