Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia 9780801450044

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Автор: Patterson Patrick Hyder
Название: Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia
Перевод названия: Патрик Паттерсон: Куплено и продано. Югославия
ISBN: 9780801450044
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История Европы

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

ISBN-10: 0801450047
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 388
Вес: 0.72 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2011
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 tables, unspecified
Размер: 241 x 164 x 29
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Living and losing the good life in socialist yugoslavia
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Yugoslavia was unique among the communist countries of the Cold War era in its openness to mixing cultural elements from both socialism and capitalism. Unlike their counterparts in the nations of the Soviet Bloc, ordinary Yugoslavs enjoyed access to a wide range of consumer goods and services, from clothes and appliances to travel agencies and discotheques. From the mid-1950s onward the political climate in Yugoslavia permitted, and later at times encouraged, a consumerist lifestyle of shopping, spending, acquiring, and enjoying that engaged the public on a day-to-day basis through modern advertising and sales techniques. 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 federations collapse into civil war in 1991.

Based on extraordinary research and featuring remarkable examples of Yugoslav print advertising and mass culture, this book reconstructs in often dramatic detail the rise of a culture in which shoppers desires trumped genuine human needs. Yugoslavia, Patterson argues, became a land where the symbolic, cultural value of consumer goods was a primary factor in individual and group identity. He shows how a new, aggressive business establishment promoted consumerist tendencies that ordinary citizens eagerly adopted, while the Communist leadership alternately encouraged and constrained the consumer orientation.

Abundance translated into civic contentment and seemed to prove that the regime could provide goods and services equal to those of the capitalist West, but many Yugoslavs, both inside and outside the circles of official power, worried about the contradiction between the populations embrace of consumption and the dictates of Marxist ideology. The result was a heated public debate over creeping consumerist values, with the new way of life finding fierce critics and, surprisingly for a communist country, many passionate and vocal defenders. Patterson argues that consumerism was one of the critical factors that held the multiethnic society together during the years of the Yugoslav Good Life of the 1960s and 1970s. With the economic downturn of the 1980s, however, the reliance on expanding consumerism ultimately led to bitter disillusionment, stripping the unique Yugoslav model of its legitimacy and priming the populace for mutual resentment, ethnic conflict, and war.

Дополнительное описание:

Prologue. The Good Life and the Yugoslav DreamIntroduction. Getting It: Making Sense of Socialist Consumer Culture
1. Living It: Yugoslavia's Economic Miracle
2. Making It: Building a Socialist Brand of Market Culture
3. Selling It: Legitimizi

Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia, Patterson Patrick Hyder