Bought & sold [electronic resource] : living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer behavior--Social aspects--Yugoslavia.

Consumer behavior.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--Yugoslavia.

Consumption (Economics).

Socialism and culture--Yugoslavia.

Socialism and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this work, Patrick Hyder Patterson shows that Yugoslavia displayed styles and levels of consumerism associated with Western capitalism, but generated within an identifiably socialist system.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8014-6363-7

OCLC:

839394246