Partisan Ruptures

Gal Kirn is an open topic fellow at TU Dresden. He was previously a researcher at the JvE Academie in Maastricht, a research fellow at ICI Berlin and a fellow at Stuttgart's Akademie Schloss Solitude. He has edited books on neoliberalism, Althusser, Yugoslav black wave cinema and theories of post-Fordism. He is currently finishing the book The Partisan Counter Archive and editing a book on riots.

• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Beyond the Spectrum of Partisan and Socialist Yugoslavia 1. On Partisan Rupture as a Revolutionary Process: Tito Versus Schmitt 2. A Brief Outline of the End of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Partisan Beginnings of World War II 3. Partisan Rupture I: The People’s Liberation Struggle 4. Split with Stalin: A New Road to Socialism? 5. Partisan Rupture II: The Road to the Non-Aligned Movement 6. Partisan Rupture III: Yugoslav Road to Self-Management Socialism 7. A Short Introduction to the Recent Studies of Socialist Yugoslavia 8. The Main Characteristics of Early Yugoslav Socialism 9. The 1965 Market Reform: From Decentralised Planning to the Logic of Capital 10. Separation I: Split within Companies, or Class Struggles from Below 11. Separation II: Competition between Companies and Financialisation, or Class Struggles from Above 12. Socialist Reproduction and Self-Management Ideology in Yugoslavia in 1968 and Beyond 13. The Contradictory Movement of Socialist Civil Society in Slovenia during the 1980s: The Beginning of the End of Yugoslavia Conclusion: After the 1991 Yugoslav Deluge, the Rise of the New Europe Notes Bibliography Index

'Gal Kirn's recovery of the courageous achievements of Yugoslav partisans is not only a crucial blow against the anticommunism of authoritarian historical revisionists. It is more importantly a generator of communist enthusiasm. By drawing out the unique achievements of the People's Liberation Struggle, self-management, and the Non-Aligned Movement, Kirn lets us see how another world was becoming possible, and believe in that world again'