Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities : An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of Europe, and the bureaucratic-Socialism of the Soviet Union.

Yet this early experimentation and dynamism ultimately gave way to the same sclerotic state-system its creators were trying to avoid.

In this engaging treatise, Suvin seeks out the source of this failure.