Bought & sold living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia

In Bought and Sold, Patrick Hyder Patterson reveals the extent to which socialist Yugoslavia embraced a consumer culture usually associated with capitalism and explores the role of consumerism in the federation's collapse into civil war in 1991.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press 2011
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture
  • Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle
  • Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture
  • Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture
  • Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism
  • Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure
  • Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream
  • Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption
  • Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of socialism, and the death of Yugoslavia
  • Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.