This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of
late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics
in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining
the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent collapse of the country in
the 1990s, the book recovers the multiplicity of political visions
and cultural developments that evolved at the time and that have been
largely forgotten in subsequent discussion. The youth of this
generation, the author convincingly argues, sought to rearticulate
the Yugoslav socialist framework in order to reinvigorate it and 'democratise' it, rather than destroy it altogether.