Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-

Bought & sold living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / [electronic resource] : Bought and sold Patrick Hyder Patterson. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. - xvii, 351 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Consumer behavior--Social aspects--Yugoslavia.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--Yugoslavia.
Socialism and culture--Yugoslavia.


Electronic books.

HF5415.33.Y8 / P38 2012

306.309497/09045