Goli Otok

Mihailovich, Vasa D.; Mihailović, Dragoslav

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“…As former inmate Dragoslav Mihailovic remembered, the increasingly porous boundary between the inmates and their keepers (policemen, guards, police investigators) further complicated the situation, making the experience of incarceration even more difficult to handle, since there could develop no real community of the imprisoned, no internal moral code of behavior. 20 Other memoirs argued that self-management was introduced so that all inmates would be tainted, so that all would participate in the crime. Many former inmates understandably saw the invention of self-management as an expression of the ultimate malice of the camp's ideologues: for Putnik, "this was the way to put the inmate in a situation in which he could never raise his head after his release, let alone condemn the system of "re-education."…”

Section: The Search For Genuine Democracy: Self-managementmentioning

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“…The declaration moment was particularly stressful and dangerous: the inmate who was presenting his attitude found himself in the center of the room, and was prodded by the room warden as well as the activists to admit "what you did, what you used to think, what you are thinking now." 29 Another inmate, Mihovil Horvat, described particularly aggressive declaration sessions when the inmate giving the statement would say something "wrong," unacceptable: "The warden imperceptibly communicated to the collective what he wanted. With roaring and bellowing, hungry beasts jumped out of their cages, ready to dismember the victim.…”

Section: The Search For Genuine Democracy: Self-managementmentioning

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The Pedagogy of Workers’ Self-Management: Terror, Therapy, and Reform Communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split

Antić¹

2016

Journal of Social History

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This article looks at the fields of psychoanalysis and psychiatry to read socialist Yugoslavia's complex international and political position. It argues that the history of postwar mental health professions in this country opens up a larger social and political story of liberalization and authoritarianism in socialist Eastern Europe. After 1948, the conflict with the Cominform, and split with the USSR, Yugoslavia went on to receive Western material help, as well as political support, and developed its own more liberal and internationally open brand of socialism, predicated on the ideas of workers' self-management and nonalignment. Yugoslav psychiatry and psychoanalysis became the most liberalized and Westernized professions in the region, but they also contributed to the operation of the violent "reeducation" program at Goli Otok, the most authoritarian and repressive political project in Yugoslav history aimed at "re-educating" pro-Stalinists in the Yugoslav Communist Party. In this article, those two sides of the Yugoslav psychiatric profession will be demonstrated through the prism of self-management. First, the article discusses the application of psychotherapeutic techniques and self-management in the violent context of re-education camps for political prisoners. A similar combination of psychoanalysis and principles of self-management in "civilian" and Westernized child psychiatry is analysed in the second part. The article shows how these very similar notions and ideological principles could be used within the same sociopolitical framework and by the same profession but for radically different purposes. In 1948, Yugoslavia, a newly socialist, revolutionary country, which had just emerged out of the most devastating conflict in its brief history, experienced yet

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Section: The Search For Genuine Democracy: Self-managementmentioning

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Section: The Search For Genuine Democracy: Self-managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Pedagogy of Workers’ Self-Management: Terror, Therapy, and Reform Communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split

Antić¹

2016

Journal of Social History

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La littérature serbe avant et après la chute du mur de Berlin

Srebro¹

2010

slavica

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IntroductionLa chute du Mur de Berlin, qui a sonné le glas du communisme en Europe n’a pas eu le même impact sur la vie intellectuelle et littéraire dans tous les anciens pays communistes. Si cet important événement historique a effectivement ouvert une nouvelle ère dans l’espace culturel de l’ex-bloc soviétique – une ère où les écrivains pouvaient enfin espérer jouir pleinement de la liberté d’expression –, il s’est inscrit dans un contexte socioculturel différent en ex-Yougoslavie, pays qui..

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Zaboravljanje traume – Goli otok u jugoslovenskoj semiosferi

Bečanović

2022

Kult. Słow.

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U radu se analiziraju semiotički procesi koji se odvijaju pod institucionalnim pritiskom, a dovode do toga da sociokulturna zajednica pamti, odnosno zaboravlja po diktatu aktuelnog režima, što znači da kolektivnom mnemonikom, ponekad i brutalno, upravljaju politički i ideološki centri moći u čijim je rukama, po pravilu, i najveća količina semiotičke moći. Tako je svojevremeno jugoslovenski državni aparat bio usmeren na zaboravljanje Golog otoka, u čemu se oslanjao upravo na institucije sistema, posebno na delovanje svoje obaveštajne službe UDB-e koja je upravljala golootočkim logorom i nametala zabranu njegove tematizacije. Odsustvo iz javnog diskursa trebalo je da rezultira zaboravom, a institucionalno nasilje i proizvedena socijalna fobija da zauvek ućutkaju svedoke. Stoga se u radu traga za manifestacijama najmračnije jugoslovenske tabu teme, uz koju je vezana najveća količina institucionalnog nasilja i represije, čiji je cilj bio zaboravljanje golootočke traume. Iako je književnost najmanje kontrolisan diskurs, o ovoj temi se piše tek godinama nakon zatvaranja logora, u kome je od 1949. do 1956. bilo zatočeno oko 15.000 ljudi. U potrazi za zabranjenom golootočkom tematikom, autorka analizira narativne tekstove Dragoslava Mihailovića (Kad su cvetale tikve 1968. i Goli otok 1990) i Mirka Kovača (Rane Luke Meštrevića 1971). Forgetting the Trauma – Goli otok in the Yugoslav Semiosphere The paper analyses semiotic processes taking place under the institutional pressure and resulting in the fact that a particular social and cultural community remembers and forgets in accordance with the dictates of the current regime, which means that the collective mnemonic is sometimes even brutally governed by political and ideological centres of authority that generally possess the greatest amount of semiotic power. Therefore the Yugoslav state administration used to be oriented towards forgetting Goli otok, where it relied precisely on the system institutions, particularly on the activities of its intelligence service called UDBA, which handled the camp of Goli otok and imposed a ban on its thematisation. The disappearance from the public discourse was supposed to result in the process of forgetting, while institutional violence and developed social phobia were to silence the witnesses forever. Thus the paper searches for the manifestations of the darkest of Yugoslav taboos, which relates to the greatest amount of institutional violence and repression aiming at forgetting of the trauma of Goli otok. Even though literature is the least controlled discourse, this topic started to be depicted in writing years after the termination of the camp, which incarcerated c. 15000 people from 1949 to 1956. Searching for the forbidden themes of Goli otok, the author analyzes the narrative texts of Dragoslav Mihailović (Kad su cvetale tikve 1968 and Goli otok 1990) and Mirko Kovač (Rane Luke Meštrevića 1971).

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Goli Otok

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The Pedagogy of Workers’ Self-Management: Terror, Therapy, and Reform Communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split

The Pedagogy of Workers’ Self-Management: Terror, Therapy, and Reform Communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split

La littérature serbe avant et après la chute du mur de Berlin

Zaboravljanje traume – Goli otok u jugoslovenskoj semiosferi

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