Bought & sold
Subtitle: living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia
By: Patrick Hyder Patterson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780801450044
Subjects: Socialism and culture; Consumer behavior; Consumption (Economics)
Other titles: Bought and sold
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture; title: Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle; title: Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture; title: Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture; title: Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism; title: Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure; title: Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream; title: Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption; title: Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of socialism, and the death of Yugoslavia; title: Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.