1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493713403321

Autore

Suvin Darko <1930->

Titolo

Splendour, misery, and possibilities : a x-ray of socialist Yugoslavia / / by Darko Suvin ; with a foreword by Fredric Jameson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-32521-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 117

Disciplina

949.702/3

Soggetti

Communism - Yugoslavia - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Yugoslavia Politics and government 1945-1980

Yugoslavia Politics and government 1980-1992

Yugoslavia History 1945-1980

Yugoslavia History 1980-1992

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction: Pro Domo Sua -- Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY -- Accumulation and Its Discontents -- On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia -- On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict -- What Has Been and What Could Have Been -- 15 Theses about Communism and Yugoslavia, or the Two-Headed Janus of Emancipation through the State (Metamorphoses and Anamorphoses of ‘On the Jewish Question’ by Marx) -- The Communist Party of Yugoslavia -- Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, or the View from Above -- Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, or the View from the Workers -- Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events -- On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production -- In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-Management -- In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism -- Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities -- Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia) -- The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia



1945–72 -- References -- Index of Proper Names of Historical Persons.

Sommario/riassunto

Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia – including its achievements and degeneration – to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx’s great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question .

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790414003321

Autore

Foust Clifford M. <1928->

Titolo

John Frank Stevens : civil engineer / / Clifford Foust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-253-01069-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 pages)

Collana

Railroads past and present

Disciplina

625.10092

B

Soggetti

Railroad engineers - United States

Railroad engineering - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A boy of West Gardiner -- Beginnings -- The Great Northern -- The Panama Canal : in -- The Panama Canal : out -- Interlude -- Railroading in Russia -- The final decades.

Sommario/riassunto

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer



whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the contro

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784428903321

Autore

Chakravarty Prasanta

Titolo

"Like parchment in the fire" : literature and radicalism in the English civil war / / Prasanta Chakravarty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-135-51119-5

1-135-51112-8

1-281-09458-7

9786611094584

0-203-96002-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Disciplina

820.9358

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Radicalism in literature

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Literature and the war

Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Radicalism from the Center: The Republican Moments of John Milton; Chapter Two. Natural Law as a Radical Weapon: John Warr, the Levellers and John Locke; Chapter Three. The Universal in the Local: Digger Radicalism Revisited; Chapter Four.Turning the World Upside



Down and the Limits of Liberalism: The Delayed Radicalism of the Ranters; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the literary, religious and political aspects of the radical movements and various sects. Featuring a chapter on John Milton, this book also addresses the legal problems that engaged the early modern radical reformers, the issue of radical religion as a negotiating tool and the limits of radical liberal thought.