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When the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) took power after the
Second World War, it had a vision for a new and better society in
which all humans would live together in peace and prosperity and in
which their mutual exploitation would be eliminated. That vision
required changes not only in the country's political and economic
structure, but in its citizen's values, morals, goals, aesthetics,
and social behavior. Based on extensive archival research, Lilly's
study describes the CPY's struggle to realize that social and
cultural transformation by means of oral, written, and visual
persuasion in the first nine years after the war.Lilly's
descriptions of party policies in such media as newspapers,
journals, educational curricula, group activities like parades,
workplace competitions, and volunteer labor brigades, and the
production of both high and popular culture depict the evolving
form and content of the party's persuasive rhetoric. Her archival
work, moreover, reveals both societal reaction to such rhetoric and
the extent to which party leaders adapted their persuasive policies
in response to feedback from below. In this respect, Lilly places
her work at the intersection of cultural history, cultural studies
and politics by discussing how individuals and different groups
perceive, digest, and remake culture from above in their own
image.Ultimately, then, this study not only modifies current
understandings of Yugoslavia's postwar history but informs us about
the nature of state-society relations in dictatorial regimes and
the complexities of cultural change. Moving beyond an
interpretation of Yugoslavia's political and cultural history in
the 1940s, it addresses broader questions like: How do dictatorial
regimes maintain power and support? How do subject populations
express their views and exert influence even under oppressive
conditions? When and how does persuasive rhetoric work and what are
its limits?
The life story of a Serbian woman over a period of more than 70
years, preserved in memoirs, letters and mostly diaries, recounts
the triumphs and tragedies of a life that takes place against the
backdrop of extraordinary turbulence in the Balkans. It covers more
than half a century, five wars (including the two world wars), and
four ideologies. This is a time of excitement in Serbia as its
leaders carve an independent state out of the Ottoman Empire and
attempt to modernize a largely rural and backwardA" corner of
Europe. A time of opportunity for many who join in the effort to
build the infrastructure of a modern economy, as well as the
growing number of middle class families who send their children, in
rare cases even girls, to the emerging system of state schools.
Above all, a time of war, as the expanding Serbian state comes into
conflict with its neighbors and, ultimately, the Great Powers of
Europe. Accompanied by an introductory study, Natalija's diary
provides a rich background to understanding the on-going conflict
in the Balkans today.
When the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) took power after the
Second World War, it had a vision for a new and better society in
which all humans would live together in peace and prosperity and in
which their mutual exploitation would be eliminated. That vision
required changes not only in the country's political and economic
structure, but in its citizen's values, morals, goals, aesthetics,
and social behavior. Based on extensive archival research, Lilly's
study describes the CPY's struggle to realize that social and
cultural transformation by means of oral, written, and visual
persuasion in the first nine years after the war.Lilly's
descriptions of party policies in such media as newspapers,
journals, educational curricula, group activities like parades,
workplace competitions, and volunteer labor brigades, and the
production of both high and popular culture depict the evolving
form and content of the party's persuasive rhetoric. Her archival
work, moreover, reveals both societal reaction to such rhetoric and
the extent to which party leaders adapted their persuasive policies
in response to feedback from below. In this respect, Lilly places
her work at the intersection of cultural history, cultural studies
and politics by discussing how individuals and different groups
perceive, digest, and remake culture from above in their own
image.Ultimately, then, this study not only modifies current
understandings of Yugoslavia's postwar history but informs us about
the nature of state-society relations in dictatorial regimes and
the complexities of cultural change. Moving beyond an
interpretation of Yugoslavia's political and cultural history in
the 1940s, it addresses broader questions like: How do dictatorial
regimes maintain power and support? How do subject populations
express their views and exert influence even under oppressive
conditions? When and how does persuasive rhetoric work and what are
its limits?
The life story of a Serbian woman over a period of more than 70
years, preserved in memoirs, letters and mostly diaries, recounts
the triumphs and tragedies of a life that takes place against the
backdrop of extraordinary turbulence in the Balkans. It covers more
than half a century, five wars (including the two world wars), and
four ideologies. This is a time of excitement in Serbia as its
leaders carve an independent state out of the Ottoman Empire and
attempt to modernize a largely rural and "backward" corner of
Europe. A time of opportunity for many who join in the effort to
build the infrastructure of a modern economy, as well as the
growing number of middle class families who send their children, in
rare cases even girls, to the emerging system of state schools.
Above all, a time of war, as the expanding Serbian state comes into
conflict with its neighbors and, ultimately, the Great Powers of
Europe. Accompanied by an introductory study, Natalija's diary
provides a rich background to understanding the on-going conflict
in the Balkans today.
Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly
weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance
agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics,
memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics
of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, and Serbia to shine fresh light on
cemetery culture in 20th-century Europe. More specifically, Death
and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia investigates how the Communist
Party of Yugoslavia created its own communities of the dead by
implementing cemetery policies which reinforced their ideals of
secularism, pluralism, brotherhood, and unity. However, in doing so
the communist regime left the previous system of ethno-religious
segregation in place and further isolated Catholics, Orthodox,
Muslims and Jews who continued to be buried in separate locations.
This in turn further politicized burial rites and exacerbated
tensions between different ethno-religious communities. As a
result, by the time Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s,
dead bodies and cemeteries had become a concerted weapon of war in
the ongoing ethnic conflict. Ultimately, then, this timely study
reveals for the first time the extent to which the communist regime
not only failed to created their own communities of the dead but
also further divided and alienated living communities in
Yugoslavia.
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