Power and Persuasion - Ideology and Rhetoric in Communist Yugoslavia, 1944-1953

An investigation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's evolving--and ultimately failed--attempts to transform social and cultural values, mores, and behavior by means of persuasion in the first nine years of its rule.

List of contents

Introduction , Part One , Setting the Stage , Tools of the Trade: The Apparatus for Cultural Change , Problems of Persuasion , Part Two , Taking Power: Cultural Manipulation and Revolutionary Change , Constructing the Framework: Mobilization and Control , The Cultural Transformation Begins , The Cultural Transformation Delayed , The Cultural Transformation Transformed , The Cultural Transformation Abandoned , Conclusion

About the author

Carol S Lilly

Summary

An investigation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's evolving--and ultimately failed--attempts to transform social and cultural values, mores, and behavior by means of persuasion in the first nine years of its rule.

Product details

• Authors: Carol S Lilly, Carol S. Lilly, Lilly Carol S
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780813338255
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3825-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, European History, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Yugoslavia, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Central / national / federal government policies, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Central government policies