Introduction:Revisiting the 1980s through a generation lens
1. 'Pockets of freedom' - the youth sphere and its spaces of
negotiation and dissent
2. Comrades, I don't believe you! - youth culture and the
rethinking of historical legacies
3. The 'phantom of liberty' - new youth activism
4. The eighty-eighters - the arena of youth politics and the
break-up of Yugoslavia
Conclusion: Rethinking youth politics and cultures in late
socialist Yugoslavia
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Ljubica Spaskovska is Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter
‘While the official statistics serve to emphasize the nature of
crisis, as well as act as indicators of intergenerational changes
of opinion in the YSFR, it is the wide range of interviews that
make the book a vivid and fascinating portrait of growing up in a
state that ceased to exist over a quarter of a century ago.
Spaskovska utilises a wide ranging dramatis personae of the
generation, each with a different series of anecdotes that provide
a tableaux of the blurred lines between the official political
youth organisations and the youthful dissidence of alternative
Yugoslav culture. A diversity of voices are heard: from radio DJs
fined for playing Laibach records, to early Slovene feminist and
LGBT activists, to young JNA officers, all holding different views
on political and cultural issues of the decade, some even
regretting their youthful rebellion in retrospect.’
Benjamin Stephens
‘This book makes an essential contribution to the history of the
break-up of Yugoslavia and indeed the history of late Cold War
Europe.’
Catherine Baker, University of Hull, Europe-Asia Studies
'Ljubica Spaskovska’s book introduces an innovative and until now
rarely explored, generational approach to the complexities of the
late Yugoslav socialism of the 1980s.'
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