<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Suvin's 'X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of Europe, and the bureaucratic-Socialism of the Soviet Union. Yet this early experimentation and dynamism ultimately gave way to the same sclerotic state-system its creators were trying to avoid. In this engaging treatise, Suvin seeks out the source of this failure.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Suvin's <em>Splendour, Misery and Possibilities</em> is a landmark contribution to the scholarship on the socialist experiments of the twentieth century that should be of particular interest to all those unconvinced by the a priori tenet of Cold War ideology...that a plebian communist revolution must necessarily end in catastrophe.</p>--Victor Strazzeri "Socialism and Democracy"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Darko Suvin</b>, Ph.D. (1970) Zagreb University, is Professor Emeritus of McGill University. He has published 21 books on Literature, Dramaturgy, Culture, and Political Epistemology, as well as poetry. Major publications include <i>Metamorphoses of Science Fiction</i>, <i>To Brecht and Beyond</i>, and <i>Defined by a Hollow</i>.
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