Bought & sold living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the good life and the Yugoslav dream
- 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 communism, and the death of Yugoslavia
- Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.