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The Last Yugoslav Generation Ljubica Spaskovska

The Last Yugoslav Generation By Ljubica Spaskovska

The Last Yugoslav Generation by Ljubica Spaskovska


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The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s

The Last Yugoslav Generation Summary

The Last Yugoslav Generation: The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism by Ljubica Spaskovska

This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent collapse of the country in the 1990s, the book recovers the multiplicity of political visions and cultural developments that evolved at the time and that have been largely forgotten in subsequent discussion. The youth of this generation, the author convincingly argues, sought to rearticulate the Yugoslav socialist framework in order to reinvigorate it and 'democratise' it, rather than destroy it altogether.

The Last Yugoslav Generation Reviews

'While the official statistics serve to emphasize the nature of crisis, as well as act as indicators of intergenerational changes of opinion in the YSFR, it is the wide range of interviews that make the book a vivid and fascinating portrait of growing up in a state that ceased to exist over a quarter of a century ago. Spaskovska utilises a wide ranging dramatis personae of the generation, each with a different series of anecdotes that provide a tableaux of the blurred lines between the official political youth organisations and the youthful dissidence of alternative Yugoslav culture. A diversity of voices are heard: from radio DJs fined for playing Laibach records, to early Slovene feminist and LGBT activists, to young JNA officers, all holding different views on political and cultural issues of the decade, some even regretting their youthful rebellion in retrospect.' Benjamin Stephens 'This book makes an essential contribution to the history of the break-up of Yugoslavia and indeed the history of late Cold War Europe.' Catherine Baker, University of Hull, Europe-Asia Studies -- .

About Ljubica Spaskovska

Ljubica Spaskovska is Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter

Table of Contents

Introduction:Revisiting the 1980s through a generation lens 1. 'Pockets of freedom' - the youth sphere and its spaces of negotiation and dissent 2. Comrades, I don't believe you! - youth culture and the rethinking of historical legacies 3. The 'phantom of liberty' - new youth activism 4. The eighty-eighters - the arena of youth politics and the break-up of Yugoslavia Conclusion: Rethinking youth politics and cultures in late socialist Yugoslavia Select bibliography Index

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NGR9781526106322
9781526106322
1526106329
The Last Yugoslav Generation: The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism by Ljubica Spaskovska
New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2019-11-21
240
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