Yugoslavia as Told by Marxist Humanists

Presentation

The history of Yugoslavia, its ups and downs, its continuities, its ruptures and its paradoxes, through an original prism: that of Marxist humanist intellectuals.

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's academic circles 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 factors behind the rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia.

Author

Sacha Markovic has a doctorate in political science and is a research associate at Eur'ORBEM (Sorbonne University) and the Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP, Nanterre). He teaches the history of the Balkans at Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and the history of political thought and international relations at Paris Nanterre University (Paris X).

472 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication : 04/12/2024
ISBN : 9782858314492