Alienation, escapism and a search for spiritual grounding: Yugoslav youth’s turning away from the dominant social values and ‘legitimate culture’

Abstract

The ongoing political and economic instability experienced by socialist Yugoslavia during the 1980s had a profound impact on the Yugoslav young generations at the time. As the dominant socialist narratives grounded on the belief in self- management’s broad potential at social democratization and reforming started to fade away in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Yugoslav youth was facing much harsher reality in comparison to previous generations...