Limits and Possibilities
The Crisis of Yugoslav Socialism and State Socialist Systems
- 190 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Limits and Possibilities was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The nature of the Eastern European Socialist state and its potential for transformation without sacrificing its specific identity is the subject of extensive current debate. Limits and Possibilities is the first book to be written that deals conceptually and historically with the myriad kinds of change a state might undergo. Bogdon Denitch has chosen the Yugoslavian model to frame his analysis because it initiated these "modernizing" changes in the 1960s and can therefore provide a case study of the limits of reforms possible in Communist regimes. In using the Yugoslav case paradigmatically, the volume addresses in a more general sense the issues of decentralization, autonomy for nonparty and nonstate institutions, multi-ethnicity, new social movements, including the "greens," and the role of women and women's movements.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction for the Yugoslav Edition
- Introduction: Limits of Change, Prospects of Democratic Change
- 1. Yugoslav Socialism: The Limit of Reforms in Politocracies
- 2. The Unanticipated Evolution of an Unprecedented Model
- 3. A Troubled Economy: Market Socialism at Bay?
- 4. Liberalization and Democratization
- 5. A Decentralized Socialist Market System
- 6. The Systemic Crises of State Socialism
- 7. The Restless Ghost: Managing Multiethnicity
- 8. The Need for a New Foreign Policy
- 9. Where Is the Yugoslav System Going?
- 10. An Opinionated, Brief, and Prescriptive Summary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index