Category Archives: 4. SFR YUGOSLAVIA

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THE SONG OF LJUBAN JEDNAK [1941/43, 1972, 2026] (3,100 words)

Posted on 1 April 2026 by darkosuvin

A versification of 128 lines faithfully reproducing the deposition of peasant Ljuban Jednak in 1943 as the only survivor of the Croatian Fascist (Ustashe) July 1941 mass murder of 600 male Serbs in Glina Orthodox church. a note adds sources … Continue reading →

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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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