The Crisis of Socialist Modernity: The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1970s

The Crisis of Socialist Modernity: The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1970s
ISBN-10
3647310425
ISBN-13
9783647310428
Category
History
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
2011-09-14
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Authors
Julia Obertreis, Marie-Janine Calic, Dietmar Neutatz

Description

In the 1970s industry in the West had reached its limits, precipitating a major discussion about how to solve the crisis. But what was going on in Eastern Europe parallel to this development? Were any similar trends being registered? The authors of this volume pursue the answers to these questions by studying the politics, economics, social and cultural movements of that time in the multiethnic countries of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. It becomes clear that these two countries were themselves in the midst of a latent crisis resulting from the global developments around them and from their own internal conflicts. The symptoms of this crisis were well known in expert circles, but not registered fully by either the political leaders or the citizens at large.

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