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Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

2011 Cornell University ;ISBN: 0801450047 ;ISBN: 9780801450044 ;EISBN: 9780801463631 ;EISBN: 0801463637 ;OCLC: 774290536 ;LCCallNum: HF5415.33.Y8P38 2012

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  • Title:
    Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia
  • Author: Patterson, Patrick Hyder
  • Subjects: Communism ; Consumer behavior ; Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Consumption (Economics) ; Culture ; Eastern ; Elites ; Europe ; Everyday life ; HISTORY ; Interethnic relations ; Social aspects ; Socialism ; Socialism and culture ; Society ; State fragmentation ; Yugoslavia
  • Description: Yugoslavia was unique among the communist countries of the Cold War era in its openness to mixing cultural elements from both socialism and capitalism. Unlike their counterparts in the nations of the Soviet Bloc, ordinary Yugoslavs enjoyed access to a wide range of consumer goods and services, from clothes and appliances to travel agencies and discotheques. From the mid-1950s onward the political climate in Yugoslavia permitted, and later at times encouraged, a consumerist lifestyle of shopping, spending, acquiring, and enjoying that engaged the public on a day-to-day basis through modern advertising and sales techniques. InBought and Sold, Patrick Hyder Patterson reveals the extent to which socialist Yugoslavia embraced a consumer culture usually associated with capitalism and explores the role of consumerism in the federation's collapse into civil war in 1991. Patterson argues, became a land where the symbolic, cultural value of consumer goods was a primary factor in individual and group identity. He shows how a new, aggressive business establishment promoted consumerist tendencies that ordinary citizens eagerly adopted, while the Communist leadership alternately encouraged and constrained the consumer orientation. Abundance translated into civic contentment and seemed to prove that the regime could provide goods and services equal to those of the capitalist West, but many Yugoslavs, both inside and outside the circles of official power, worried about the contradiction between the population's embrace of consumption and the dictates of Marxist ideology. The result was a heated public debate over creeping consumerist values, with the new way of life finding fierce critics and, surprisingly for a communist country, many passionate and vocal defenders.
  • Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell University Press
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 388
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0801450047
    ISBN: 9780801450044
    EISBN: 9780801463631
    EISBN: 0801463637
    OCLC: 774290536
    LCCallNum: HF5415.33.Y8P38 2012
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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