Publication of La Yougoslavie que racontent les humanistes marxistes (Yugoslavia as told by Marxist humanists)

At first glance, the break-up of Yugoslavia and the gradual "ideological mutations" of individual countries appear to be the result of a transition process common to the whole of socialist Europe. However, the specific features of Yugoslav self-management suggest that the emergence of an exclusive nationalism has its roots in earlier political and socio-economic transitions. This book explores the intellectual and cultural origins of the final Yugoslav divisions, through the political evolution of a group that tells the story of Tito's Yugoslavia: the Marxist humanists, from the birth of humanist sensibility in the 1920s to the purge of Belgrade academia in the 1970s. This plunge into Yugoslavia's communist past reveals that neither the Second World War nor the collapse of communism in the East are the only historical matrices for the rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia.

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