CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Bakovic, Nikola |
|---|---|
| Title | Socialist "Oasis" in the Capitalist "Desert": Yugoslav State Propaganda for Economic Emigrants in FR Germany (1966-1975) |
| Summary | In this thesis, I am analysing the “informa tional-propagan dist” activities undertaken by the Yugoslav state institutions, aimed for Yugoslav workers (Gastarbeiter) who went to FR Germany to work in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I discuss the development of the official institutions for Gastarbeiter-oriented questions, as well as the shift from state’s reliance on self-organised Yugoslav workers’ clubs to a more centralised and state-controlled institutional framework of Cultural-Informational Centres. The political aspects of Yugoslav propaganda are also analysed, most notably the extension of the Party apparatus abroad and use of guest workers in the military propaganda and campaigns against the hostile political emigration. The thesis also deals with the ways in which the cultural events the state organised for emigrants were imbued with patriotic propaganda and the modernising discourse. The analytical framework of transnationalism is employed as a means to explain Yugoslav propaganda in the terms of a sending state extending its institutional sovereignty across its borders, and adapting its policies according to the shifts in internal Yugoslav and external Cold War developments of the time. |
| Supervisor | Siefert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/bakovic_nikola.pdf |
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