Bought & sold living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson.

Author/creator Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,
Descriptionxvii, 351 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
Consumer behavior--Social aspects. --Yugoslavia.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects. --Yugoslavia.
Socialism and culture--Yugoslavia.

Variant title Bought and sold
Contents 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 socialism, and the death of Yugoslavia -- Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011022273
ISBN9780801450044 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0801450047 (hc : alk. paper)