Category Archives: 4. SFR YUGOSLAVIA

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Samo jednom se ljubi: Radiografija SFR Jugoslavije (2024, 321.000 words)

Posted on 9 February 2024 by darkosuvin
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SPLENDOURS, MISERIES, AND POTENTIALITIES OF SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA: THE BERLIN THESES (2014-22, main part 6000 words)

Posted on 3 August 2022 by darkosuvin

14 Theses on, plus a Chronology of, SFR Yugoslavia provide an overview for approaching my book Splendour, Miseries and potentialities of socialist yugostavia: The Berlin Theses ALSO IN http://www.olioofficina.it/corso-italia-7/splendours-miseries-and-potentialities-of-socialist-yugoslavia-the-berlin-theses-1.htm, 2015

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WE HAD A CLASSIC: Notes Defining Predrag Matvejević (2020, 10,700 words)

Posted on 27 May 2020 by darkosuvin

Japanese Slavic and East European Studies Vol.40. , 2020 A unit in 2 parts: 1/ A necrological look back at PM’s writings and how I encountered them as old friend, with stress on those written after the fall of SFR … Continue reading →

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COMMUNISM CAN ONLY BE RADICAL PLEBEIAN DEMOCRACY: REMARKS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF S.F.R. YUGOSLAVIA AND ON CIVIL SOCIETY (2015, 13,500 words)

Posted on 25 May 2015 by darkosuvin

International Critical Thought 6.2 (2016): 165-89., 2016 The essay is divided into approach and two parts plus a short summation. The approach poses the theme of nexus between communism and democracy as the only hope to oppose the present neo-fascist … Continue reading →

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Two Approaches to Understanding S.F.R. Yugoslavia (2015, 5,800 words)

Posted on 2 March 2015 by darkosuvin
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(With Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS: FORMS, POLITICS, HISTORY — INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN (2014-15, 18,700 words)

Posted on 23 May 2014 by darkosuvin

INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN* (18,700 words) By Sezgin Boynik, May 2014, Lucca [This piece is forthcoming in Rab-Rab {Helsinki] July 2015] Sezgin Boynik: Can you tell in which way the discussions concerning Brecht and Formalist issues in late fifties and … Continue reading →

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THE ECONOMICO-POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF BORIS KIDRIČ: A BETRAYED DISALIENATION (2011-14, 6,200 words)

Posted on 20 May 2014 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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COMMUNISM AND YUGOSLAVIA, OR THE TWO-HEADED JANUS OF EMANCIPATION THROUGH THE STATE: 15 THESES (2011, 8,710 words)

Posted on 29 May 2011 by darkosuvin
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ON DRAMATURGIC AGENTS AND KRLEŽA’S AGENTIAL STRUCTURE: THE TYPES AS A KEY LEVEL (1984, 7.900 words)

Posted on 30 August 1984 by darkosuvin
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On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia 1945–1974, with a Hypothesis about the Ruling Class (16,300 words)

Posted on 15 December 1974 by darkosuvin
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