Yugoslavia's sunny side : a history of tourism in socialism (1950s-1980s)

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Yugoslavia's sunny side : a history of tourism in socialism (1950s-1980s)

Title remainder

a history of tourism in socialism (1950s-1980s)

Statement of responsibility

edited by Hannes Grandits and Karin Taylor

Creator

• Grandits, Hannes

Contributor

• Taylor, Karin

Editor

• Grandits, Hannes
• Taylor, Karin

Subject

• Communism -- Yugoslavia
• Tourism -- Yugoslavia

Language

eng

Summary

Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and ethnicA" conflict in the past two decades. For many former citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the good lifeA" people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country, fell apart. Undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Commumism. The story evolved from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking among Yugoslav citizens in the 1950s and 1960s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 1980s. It reviews tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. The book investigates how socialist and Yugoslav ideologies aimed to turn workers into consumers of purposefulA" leisure, and how these ideas were set against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking.--

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338.4791497

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography