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The Position of the Individual in the Yugoslav Self-managed Socialism: Theory and Practice of the 1960s

My analysis of the position of an individual in the theory and practice of self-managed socialism is based on historical anthropology, focusing primarily on the history of "common citizen". The sources used for the research of the theory of self-managed socialism were Program of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia - LCY (adopted at its 7th Congress in 1958) and the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1963. The self-management theory was ideologically formulated in the Program (which was valid until the collapse of communism in Yugoslavia), and the Yugoslav constitution from 1963 was largely modeled in accordance with the Party Program. The sources for my analysis of the everyday practice of the self-management systems were letters (petitions, appeals, complaints) written by the citizens to the state and LCY officials and institutions, as well as documents of the state and LCY institutions containing reactions to the appeals of citizens. The period covered in my analysis begins with 1958 and ends with 1971. This period is usually considered as a liberal era of Yugoslav communism. Comparing the theoretical assumptions on the position of the individual on one side, and the social and other problems which are visible in the citizens’ letters on the other, the wide gap between self-management theory and everyday life in Yugoslavia is revealed.

Self-management; socialism; Yugoslavia; individual; utopia; theory; everyday life

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