Soviet and Yugoslav Models of Socialism

ISBN-13: 9786209423994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 488 str.

Djord Shimon

Opis

The monograph makes a first attempt to analyze and compare the characteristic features of two key models of 20th-century real socialism: the Soviet and the Yugoslav. If Soviet Russia, and even more so the USSR, were absolutely sovereign and capable historical states, then Yugoslavia was, in essence, a project-engineered guardian state of territory, created with the goal of uniting mainly South Slavs, except Bulgarians, by the Global Predictor (suprastate management). The Soviet model represented statist socialism, as it was directed directly by the state. In the first postwar years, Yugoslavia strictly followed the experience of the USSR. However, it later built its own model of self-managed socialism within the Red Project. Yugoslav socialism was more open to the outside world than the Soviet one. In both cases, the construction of socialism was interrupted due to a series of economic, political, and other reasons. These reasons were largely objective in nature, but the subjective factor was apparently decisive.