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Author Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-

Title Bought & sold [electronic resource] : living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Description xvii, 351 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Consumer behavior -- Social aspects -- Yugoslavia.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Yugoslavia.
Socialism and culture -- Yugoslavia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Bought and sold
ISBN 9780801450044 (alk. paper)
9780801463631 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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