title: Yugoslav Metanarrative and Contemporary Yugonostalgia in Western Balkan Countries
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metadata.value: Efremenko, Dmitry V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Meleshkina, Elena Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-26T12:38:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-26T12:38:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Efremenko D. V., Meleshkina E. Yu. Yugoslav Metanarrative and Contemporary Yugonostalgia in Western Balkan Countries. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2020, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 78–100.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17871
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the features of the Yugoslav metanarrative and its transformation, the activities
  of mnemonic actors in its formation and the use of its individual elements after the collapse
  of the SFRY. As an analytical tool, the concept of a metanarrative is used, which is understood as
  the mechanism for translating ideological elements of the past into everyday reality and representing
  norms and values that are constitutive for the political regime using a certain set of symbolic
  means. Like the metanarrative in the former USSR, the Yugoslav metanarrative was aimed
  at achieving a high degree of political and ideological control of public opinion or at replacing it
  with directive ideological principles. Within the framework of this model, social communication
  and public debate cannot fully fulfill the function of developing national identity and forming new
  frames for interpreting political problems. The metanarrative contributed to the formation and
  strengthening of several types of identities, including the identity of representatives of the “titular
  nations” and ethnic minorities. The destruction of the metanarrative meant the impossibility of
  maintaining its integrity, the withering away of many components, but the survival of other components,
  which can retain their significance for certain types of identity. The article shows how the
  activity of mnemonic leaders of the republics of the former SFRY, in the formation and reproduction
  of a positive or negative perception of the past, affects the formation of various competing
  projects of national identity and their configuration in the present. The features of Yugonostalgia
  that determine the possibility of their use by various political forces in their interests are revealed.
  It is concluded that the variability of the attitude to the Yugoslav socialist past and its use in political
  rhetoric in the countries of the Western Balkans is primarily due to the peculiarities of ethnic and
  religious divisions, the role of the former union republics as part of the SFRY, pre-war Yugoslavia
  and other state entities, the history of independence and subsequent development.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 16; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metanarrative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialist Yugoslavia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: memory policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yugoslavism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: new Yugoslavism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yugonostalgia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: titostalgia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: symbolic politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Yugoslav Metanarrative and Contemporary Yugonostalgia in Western Balkan Countries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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