The last Yugoslav generation: The rethinking of youth politics and cultures in late socialism

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Manchester University Press, 2017 M04 30 - 264 pages
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.
 

Contents

List of figures
revisiting the 1980s through a generation lens
youth culture and
new youth activism
the arena of youth politics and
rethinking youth politics and culture in late socialist
Index
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Ljubica Spaskovska is Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter

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