The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia

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Beschreibung

Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool. In 1944 a team representing the incipient state was dispatched to play matches around the liberated Mediterranean. This consummated a deep relationship between football and communism that endured until this complex multi-ethnic polity tore itself apart in the 1990s. Starting with an exploration of the game in the short-lived interwar Kingdom, this book traces that liaison for the first time. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, it ventures across the former Yugoslavia to illustrate the myriad ways football was harnessed by an array of political forces. Communists purposefully re-engineered Yugoslavia's most popular sport in the tumult of the 1940s, using it to integrate diverse territories and populations. Subsequently, the game advanced Tito's distinct brand of communism, with its Cold War-era policy of non-alignment and experimentation with self-management. Yet, even under tight control, football was racked by corruption, match-fixing and violence. Alternative political and national visions were expressed in the stadiums of both Yugoslavias, and clubs, players and supporters ultimately became perpetrators and victims in the countries' violent demise.
In Richard Mills' hands, the former Yugoslavia's stadiums become vehicles to explore the relationship between sport and the state, society, nationalism, state-building, inter-ethnic tensions and war. The book is the first in-depth study of the Yugoslav game and offers a revealing new way to approach the complex history of Yugoslavia.

Über den Autor

Richard Mills is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Zusammenfassung

A unique and insightful look at the complex history of socialist Yugoslavia through the lens of football.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1 - Antecedents: Football in the Kingdom, 1919-1941
Chapter 2 - Liberation Football, 1941-1945
Chapter 3 - (Re)constructing the Yugoslav Game, 1945-1948
Chapter 4 - A 'Golden Age'? Prestige, Problems and the 'Third Way' after 1948
Chapter 5 - Keeping the Revolution Alive: The Long 1970s
Chapter 6 - After Tito - Nationalism! The 1980s
Chapter 7 - The Maksimir Myth
Chapter 8 - On the Brink: The 1990-1991 Season
Chapter 9 - Football on the Frontlines, 1991-1995
Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781838603823
ISBN-10:	1838603824
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mills, Richard
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard Mills
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.09.2019
Gewicht:	0,524 kg